Stage Quotes · Page 104

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

— K. D. Lang

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more…

— Josh Radnor

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and…

— Natasha Leggero

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

— Dennis Wilson

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

— Otto Weininger

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

— Kenneth Clark

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

— Grace Jones

Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.

— Masego

Bolton was another important stage for me. I learned a lot, even if I didn't fight for any titles. We were not…

— Marcos Alonso

Obviously, I'm a bit of a vaudeville act; I like to jump around the stage and do little silly bits, but as…

— CMAT

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with…

— Antonya Nelson

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe.…

— Branford Marsalis

At Tottenham, we are just bombing on as wing-backs, but sometimes on the international stage, where there is so much quality, you…

— Kieran Trippier

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes,…

— Michelle Chamuel

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up,…

— Johnny Vegas

I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and…

— Kyle MacLachlan

You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water…

— David Lee Roth

We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community…

— Peter Coyote

I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of…

— Simu Liu

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and…

— Milan Kundera

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also…

— Roderick Nash

I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this…

— Marc Benioff

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

There is nothing better than coming off stage and being all sweaty and not partying.

— Alana Haim

Because so many people love seeing me on stage and because I can make many people happy, I become happy through them.

— Jin

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

— Joni Mitchell

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants…

— Mark Wahlberg

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

— Suzanne Collins

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

— Buffalo Bill

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

— Larry David

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

— Herbert Read

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

— Dagmara Dominczyk

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India

— Chris Kattan

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

— Urmila Matondkar

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my…

— Bette Davis

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

— Jon Tenney

And once you've been on stage, you can't stay away from it for long.

— Binnu Dhillon

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

— Patti LaBelle