Stage Quotes · Page 67

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable…

— Anonymous

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

— John Leguizamo

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

— Tom Wopat

When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

— Jack Whitehall

When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

— Charlotte Caffey

I like to wear something I can move in, and light colors because of the stage lights.

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

— Ophelia Lovibond

I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that.…

— John Lydon

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection…

— Hayley Mills

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or…

— Mandy Patinkin

It is really important for young girls to see a more natural shape on stage and not your supermodel sizes - seeing…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But…

— Van Morrison

People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said…

— Sandra Cisneros

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to…

— Rand Paul

I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this…

— Bill Hicks

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time…

— Diane Setterfield

I was at the beginning stages of my pregnancy, and it never really feels real anyway, until you actually start showing and…

— Michelle Monaghan

I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential…

— Alex O'Loughlin

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the…

— Ronald Reagan

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real…

— Herbert Read

Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure,…

— Yael Cohen

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many…

— Monique Coleman

After I saw 'Annie' on Broadway, I came out of the show crying, because I wanted to be on that stage.

— Noah Schnapp

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

— Asrani

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

— Paloma Faith

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

— Eric Clapton

“That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

— Aristotle

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

— Karl Rove

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can…

— Prince

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

— Julie Taymor

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

— Arsenio Hall C

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

— Sean Penn

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on…

— Barbra Streisand

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

— Hal Holbrook

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged…

— Daley Thompson

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that…

— Seth

Before going onstage you can always feel the adrenaline pouring through your veins.

— Jose Jose