Stage Quotes · Page 110

You see some people on stage today, and they have these huge ear monitors.

— Colm Wilkinson

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things…

— Mel Gibson

Women's sports just needs a stage. If we have a stage we can show up and perform and show people what we're…

— Nelly Korda

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

— Robert Browning

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

— Maria Callas

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

— Laurie Metcalf

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation…

— Israel Houghton

It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my…

— Desiree Akhavan

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there…

— Retief Goosen

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We…

— Dan Smith

It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only…

— Rudolf Steiner

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage…

— Sarah Paulson

It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night.…

— Matthew Ramsey

Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is…

— Walt Whitman

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by…

— Sylvia Plath

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out…

— Julian Jaynes

No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did.…

— John Kasich

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but…

— Cameron Diaz

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,…

— Robert Kazinsky

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there…

— Sean O'Casey

“Imma send you from venue to venue, from stage to stage, and from page to page. You'll just get better with age.”

— Alma Fisher

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.

— Sasha Velour

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

— Douglas Wood

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

— Emanuel Ax

When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes.

— Liz Carr

My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

— OMI

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.

— Andy Williams

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

— Michael C. Hall

Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.

— Darius Rucker

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

— Richard Strauss

“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.”

— Dave Matthes

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

— Brian Blessed

In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.

— Sam Altman

I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my…

— Lil Dicky

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor