Stage Quotes · Page 99

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

— Misty Copeland

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and…

— Eartha Kitt

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

— Noel Coward

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

— Charles Krauthammer

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

— Rita Tushingham

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

— Amber Nash

I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

— Fawad Khan

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

— Greta Scacchi

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's…

— Bill Nighy

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and…

— Ani DiFranco

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a…

— Anson Mount

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The…

— Ed Speleers

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was…

— Richard Lester

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up…

— Mark Burnett

My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits…

— Armin van Buuren

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight.…

— Dan Auerbach

Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.…

— Eckhart Tolle

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here…

— Ali Banisadr

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce…

— Kevin Hart

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a…

— Al Pacino

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You…

— Ken Livingstone

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in…

— Sam Keen

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…

— Fernando Bujones

The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and…

— Scott Aukerman

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

— Stewart Copeland

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

— Johnny Ramone

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the…

— Jake Roberts

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

“It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.”

— Jan Karon

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

— George P. Bush

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

— Stan Lee

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

I never dreamt of being a pop star or being on stage - makeup was always my true passion.

— Jeffree Star

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

— Sarah Sutton

I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a…

— Paul Smith

When I go on stage, I still have that open-mic mentality of trying to prove myself.

— Noah Kahan

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

— Kerry Washington

I probably could stand a chance on American Idol if I could bring my shower on stage.

— Anonymous

I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.

— Jayne Meadows