Stage Quotes · Page 55

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

— Jim Rash

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

— David Wenham

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

— Elia Kazan

I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

— Eva Marie Saint

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but…

— Rick Danko

I have this weird thing where I have to process things emotionally on a stage rather than one-to-one, sometimes.

— John Wilson

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

— Mike Rutherford

With drumming, I've done so many hours on stage in past bands and have been playing in bands for my whole life…

— G Flip

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel…

— Sam Shepard

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older…

— Bobby Vinton

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time…

— Richard Roxburgh

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to…

— Orlando Bloom

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you…

— John Cale

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

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I…

— Michael Caine

There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage…

— Scott D. Anthony

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely…

— Elbert Hubbard

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not…

— Romano Prodi

In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed…

— Hannah

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented…

— David Henry Hwang

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must…

— Deng Xiaoping

The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before…

— Arnold Gesell

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

— Deborah Tall

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.

— Lynn Nottage

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

— Quentin Crisp

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

— Sharon Jones

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

— John Stuart Mill

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story…

— George Balanchine

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

— Tim Cook

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

— Amanda Schull

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

— Bill Hader

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises…

— Anton Chekhov

I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I'm happy to be with TNA.

— Bobby Lashley

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's…

— Margaret Cho

I wanted to go on a project which shows the mixture of Chae rin and CL, not just CL on stage or…

— CL

The Champions League is a big stage - it's where every player dreams of playing.

— Victor Wanyama

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

— B. B. King

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

— Tom Stoppard