Stage Quotes · Page 96

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before…

— Rose Tremain

On the road I don't shave until the evening before I go out on stage.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within…

— Ron Pope

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad…

— Robert Greene

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

— Erving Goffman

It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.

— Ken Berry

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on…

— Ruth Negga

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the…

— Eric Bibb

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to…

— Judy Garland

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're…

— Dick Dale

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if…

— Justin Kirk

I used to bomb around London in my little Austin 10 throughout the raids to appear on stage and if there was…

— Vera Lynn

I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I…

— Charlyne Yi

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a…

— Andy Grammer

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even…

— Shusaku Endo

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can…

— Derrick Rose

I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together,…

— Jill Ker Conway

The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline…

— Corey Taylor

I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new…

— Louis Menand

No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to…

— Washington Gladden

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to…

— Rachael Stirling

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

— John Legend

More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.

— Yael Cohen

I've never had stage fright, that would mean you were paralyzed like a rabbit in headlights and you wouldn't be able to…

— Tess Daly

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

— Alexander Smith

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it…

— Wanda Sykes

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

— Kumi Naidoo

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

— Cate Blanchett

When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense…

— Sunil Grover

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.

— Svetlana Khorkina

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

— Conor Maynard

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

— Damien Dempsey

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

— Holly Near

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

— Viola Davis

I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.

— Christie Laing

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

— Marco Rubio