“When you're onstage, part of you wants to be off as fast as possible. And once you're offstage, everything is in anticipation… — Bill Irwin Copy Share Image
There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I've been using slide guitar, banjo, stuff like that for yonks. But if people haven't seen me live on stage, they wouldn't… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular.… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though.… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on… — Charlotte Church Copy Share Image
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life,… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup.… — James Carver Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front… — Alfie Allen Copy Share Image
I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image