Stage Quotes · Page 77

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

— Gabrielle Aplin

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it…

— Lesley Sharp

I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it…

— Jim Norton

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

— Joyce Cary

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with…

— Harper Lee

No, people don't heckle me. I think it's because there's this big, black guy on stage and it's slightly daunting.

— Lenny Henry

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

— Nancy Wilson

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

— Norman Finkelstein

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached…

— Julie Andrews

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup…

— Marco Rubio

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more…

— Ray Davies

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce…

— Noam Chomsky

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling,…

— Leah LaBelle

As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and…

— Tim Commerford

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive…

— George Mikes

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:…

— Charles Stross

Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell…

— Bruce Bruce

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out,…

— Tim Minchin

Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life…

— Pope Francis

Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I…

— Christian Louboutin

If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence…

— Susan B. Anthony

A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in…

— Mao Zedong

No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now,…

— Antonio Banderas

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely…

— Steven Wright

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

— Tom Jones

I feel most at home when the lights are on me and I'm dancing around on stage.

— Robby Hoffman

I never get nervous before a show, but I get nervous when we come to Scotland.

— Drew McIntyre

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is…

— Michael Owen

Everybody knows the World Series of Poker is the biggest stage in the world. This is where you make your name.

— Phil Hellmuth

When I came to Chelsea and worked with Mourinho, it was my first time abroad, so that was an important stage for…

— Arjen Robben

'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.

— Shaggy

Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

— Mike McCready

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage.

— Al B. Sure

So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'

— Martie Maguire

I quite like the idea of performing in front of people that don't like me.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

— Kat Graham

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I just think, at my stage of life, becoming a new grandfather, it's about time I started to behave like a grandfather.

— Rex Hunt

Performing for live audiences and seeing the fans' faces is a thrill like no other.

— Mandy Rose