Stage Quotes · Page 117

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

— Ted Danson

I'm hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.

— Ari Lennox

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

— Rutina Wesley

I like to keep my normal life under wraps but in front of 80,000 people, I'm going to perform.

— George Groves

While it's great to have a live interaction with the audience, you only have one chance to nail each song.

— Jonita Gandhi

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really…

— Kenneth Cranham

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

— Antonin Artaud

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop…

— Angela Lansbury

I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside…

— Valerie Azlynn

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being…

— Christian Cage

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my…

— Sylvie Guillem

During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand…

— Jessie J

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do,…

— Cate Blanchett

That's the beauty of student comedy: you can get all your grotesque, rubbish little ideas on stage. By the time you've left…

— Jamie Demetriou

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all…

— Jeremih

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big…

— John Roberts

European festivals area lot bigger than American ones, but I like the travelling festivals, it's the same production every day and the…

— Tim Lambesis

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story…

— Ray Kurzweil

Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy…

— Mitch Albom

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty…

— Alan Menken

I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a…

— Pankaj Mishra

Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make…

— Brian Henson

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage.…

— Ellen Terry

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

— Nish Kumar

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

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after…

— David Thewlis

My intention was always to share my experience and my gifts on the largest stage possible.

— Jonathan Majors

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

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I have the luxury of having the choice to perform and go up on stage every night.

— Borns

“If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don’t hesitate to play the character you wish to play.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in…

— Hillary Clinton

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

— Alison King

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to…

— Madonna Ciccone

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

— Eckhart Tolle

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

— Bob Newhart

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