Stage Quotes · Page 69

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

— Gustavo Dudamel

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

— Jonathan Coulton

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I went to NYU and we had to wear stage black every day, so I'd add a bright lipstick to feel a…

— Chloe Fineman

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

— Elton John

On stage, I'm a little exaggerated version of myself. This is all dumb stuff I'm really thinking about.

— Nate Bargatze

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

— Neil Peart

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and…

— Nicola Peltz

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people…

— Jonathan Meades

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play…

— Taylor Swift

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't…

— Damien Chazelle

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and…

— Wil Wheaton

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that…

— Helen Hayes

India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved…

— Karisma Kapoor

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra…

— Dylan Moran

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers…

— Deb Caletti

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of…

— Sharon Jones

I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not…

— Seth Rogen

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played…

— Shirley MacLaine

And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through…

— Shane Koyczan

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion…

— Helen Mirren

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend…

— William Gibson

Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I…

— Rajneesh

I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the…

— Darius McCrary

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute…

— Brian Wilson

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.

— John W. Snow

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

— Guy Davenport

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he…

— George Bernard Shaw

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

— Robin Thicke

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

— Bobby McFerrin

The excitement and energy that happens on stage is unbelievable. The only thing better than that is sex, I swear!

— Faith Hill

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the…

— Beau Willimon

There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human…

— Dael Orlandersmith

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what…

— Dave Chappelle

I feel the most powerful and confident when I'm on stage and so in control.

— Megan Stalter

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress

— Isabelle Huppert

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

— Nigel Lythgoe

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good…

— Ben Horowitz