Stage Quotes · Page 65

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

— John Dryden

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

— Miley Cyrus

My life is the same, and I am at a beautiful stage at 88. I am as excited as I was in…

— Dev Anand

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

— Ron White

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

— Tones and I

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

— Morgan Freeman

Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering,…

— Bob Gunton

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a…

— Jack White

A lot of things are going to pop out at you, a lot of things might freak you out but other than…

— Bow Wow

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court…

— Helen McCrory

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you…

— Romola Garai

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror…

— Dan Chaon

In theatres, you're kind of disconnected. Also, it's way too big for the likes of me. Unless you're Robin Williams or someone…

— Norm MacDonald

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements,…

— David Ogilvy

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t…

— Thornton Wilder

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single…

— David Copperfield

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many…

— Anton Chekhov

Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing…

— Michael Beckwith

Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when…

— Shelby Harris

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and…

— Vincent Nichols

There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and…

— Jimmy Barnes

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

— Susan Howe

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

— Alan Rickman

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being…

— Darcey Bussell

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

— Ellen Terry

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

— John Bishop

When you dance you need an awful lot of energy. Off stage, you learn to conserve.

— Cyd Charisse

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

— Sharon Van Etten

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

— Gary Barlow

You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.

— Charlie Sheen

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

— Nina Arianda

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

— Stephen Crane

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

— Dave Grohl

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

— Michael Schenker

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

— Manning Marable

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who…

— Dana Loesch