Stage Quotes · Page 62

I go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.

— Doug Stanhope

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

— David Mitchell

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten…

— Jo Brand

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

“You have to set the stage now,there is so much for you to accomplish.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

— Bruce Robinson

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

— Debra Winger

Every time I've been around Beyonce, I get so nervous that I forget how to speak English.

— Justine Skye

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion…

— James Payn

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage…

— Richard Schiff

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing…

— John Steinbeck

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and…

— Marc Almond

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained…

— Tom Hardy

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of…

— Julian Barratt

On stage, I like to talk more about my own life and what I'm going through and my own experiences, as opposed…

— Esther Povitsky

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm…

— Fred Melamed

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that…

— Paul Robeson

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.…

— Stephen Sondheim

The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little…

— Andy Griffiths

Maybe you are more relaxed in the group stage, because you know you have time to fix things if you lose. The…

— Deco

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be…

— John Stuart Mill

Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a…

— Nirmala Srivastava

If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and…

— Al Gore

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of…

— Matt Papa

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people,…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me…

— David Sanborn

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

— Elton John

“The world is a stage waiting for you to take lead or become an audience.”

— Aiyaz Uddin

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

— Andy Kaufman

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

— Dave Chappelle

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

— Hyuna

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

— Laurence Fishburne

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

— Marisa Tomei

When I get on the stage, I try to connect with the fans and offer them the best of the best. I…

— Romeo Santos

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

— Keith Richards

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

— Chrissie Hynde

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

— Lolly Adefope

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

— Suzanne Collins

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

— Constantin Stanislavski