When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em,… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
I have two different sides to my personality. I decided to give my fans what they want and who they are used… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“After the merch booth has closed, I join the melee, but am nudged to the middle of the mob, and then the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
It sounds a cliche but when I'm on stage I'm at my most relaxed, I feel most like myself. When I have… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I've been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I'm free enough to execute new… — SZA Copy Share Image
Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You… — Jessica Hecht Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Film taught me an enormous amount about the internal life a performance has to have, and that life has to be real.… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
