Stage Quotes · Page 70

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

— Joe Mantello

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

— Bernard Malamud

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

— Constance Marie

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

— Peter O'Toole

[On stage diving] That was my first time doing that. Im trying to get better every day.

— Anonymous

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

— Daniel Nathans

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

— Hollie Cavanagh

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can…

— Michael Ealy

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Stage outfits are loud, outspoken, glamorous, fancy, and very different from normal day-to-day clothing. Therefore, by its nature, it is experimental.

— G-Dragon

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've…

— Nathan Wolfe

I've never been afraid of being vulnerable on stage. It's a large part of life, and I think it's being dishonest to…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I…

— Steve Carell

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt…

— Seth Rollins

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd…

— Schoolboy Q

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes…

— Renee Fleming

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene.…

— Wendell Pierce

Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was…

— Arthur Mitchell

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and…

— Dee Snider

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the…

— Judy Holliday

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act.…

— Billy Gardell

I'm quite a reserved person, but when it comes to being on stage, something just clicks, and I sort of run around…

— Dan Smith

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive.…

— Bruce Springsteen

What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men…

— Amanda Schull

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

— Herbert Marcuse

As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.

— Pulkit Samrat

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is…

— Lucinda Riley

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

— George Benjamin

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly…

— Sam Shepard

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

— James Corden

Live audiences are quite demanding. They shower you with love and admiration, but only if you have done a very good job.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

— Ryan Hall

By now, everyone knows I do not just sing standing in the middle of the stage. I also dance and get others…

— Asha Bhosle

Whenever I'm doing stage, I want to be doing screen, and vice versa.

— Toby Stephens

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

— Omari Hardwick

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

— Perry Farrell

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

— Sam Hinkie

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

— Pedro Martinez

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot…

— Seth Grahame-Smith