Stage Quotes · Page 50

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

— George A. Sheehan

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

— Lawrence Welk

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about…

— Stella McCartney

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

— Sigmund Freud

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I always feel together with people on stage, but sometimes I feel even more alone afterwards.

— Noah Kahan

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

— Frances McDormand

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

— Retief Goosen

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

— Desiree Akhavan

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

I do not work out regularly, but I do dance so much and jump around so much on stage, and I do…

— Perfume Genius

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and…

— David Byrne

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set,…

— Claudia Black

Yes, it was fun playing the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. But I just wasn't satisfied. To have that one big win in a…

— Mardy Fish

I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems…

— Fiona Apple

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's…

— Scott Berkun

We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries…

— Chris Alexander

Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips…

— Leatrice Eiseman

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes.…

— Gayle Forman

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit…

— Orlando Bloom

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I…

— Ian Mckellen

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That…

— Aubrey Plaza

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I think it's brilliant to see players you've grown up with on the international stage come through to senior level.

— Phil Jones

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your…

— Ed Simons

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that…

— Rita Ora

I love the company of my family and I like being on stage performing because I'm interested in people.

— Anh Do

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

— Barry Humphries

I wear a lot of wigs and stuff on stage to make my hair look bigger.

— Hunx

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

— Maria Montessori

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

— Peter Diamandis

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

— Clint Eastwood

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

— Thia Megia

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

— Michael Stahl-David

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

— Andy Serkis

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

— Judith Hill

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about.…

— Masego