Stage Quotes · Page 119

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

— Hunter Hayes

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

— Andrew Bird

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on…

— Tori Kelly

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

— Kumi Naidoo

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

— Alan Alda

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

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Sunil Grover

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first…

— Albert Hammond, Jr

The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and…

— Stromae

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is…

— Ken Tucker

It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything --…

— Marat Safin

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd…

— Ron Reagan

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go…

— Anonymous

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another…

— Kim Nam-joon

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James…

— Rick James

We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with…

— Gregory Palamas

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that…

— Steve Ballmer

I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes…

— George Carlin

The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and…

— Banana Yoshimoto

You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage,…

— Jeremy Irons

No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on…

— Michelle Chamuel

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

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

— Alexander Smith

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

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

— Yael Cohen

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

— John Legend

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

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

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

— Ken Berry

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

— Holly Near

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

— Christie Laing

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

— Viola Davis

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

— Damien Dempsey

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

— Conor Maynard

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 love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that…

— Jordin Sparks

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

— Tom Shields