Stage Quotes · Page 97

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

— Connie Nielsen

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on…

— Kirk Douglas

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

— Maria Callas

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

— Nina Conti

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience…

— Boy George

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It…

— Aaliyah

I'm generally happiest in a rehearsal room, if the rehearsals are going well.

— Tara Fitzgerald

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and…

— James Durbin

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about…

— Carol Kane

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of…

— Dan Bejar

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are…

— Kellie Pickler

It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage,…

— Jacob Bannon

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound…

— Michael Bolton

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern…

— Leon Askin

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never…

— Lauren Potter

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you…

— George Washington

I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New…

— Malcolm Gets

What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make…

— Squarepusher

Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing…

— Charles Stanley

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University…

— Ryan McPartlin

I like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little…

— Reeve Carney

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of…

— Pablo Picasso

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

— Robert Morse

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway…

— Lacey Schwimmer

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

— Robin Ince

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

— Placido Domingo

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

— Lee Ryan

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

— Zawe Ashton

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state…

— Stirling Moss

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

— Henry Rollins

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

— Jeremy Piven

I was giving the Academy Player of the Year award and I got up on stage and the word I struggled with…

— Rob Burrow

There's nothing better, I used to get so nervous, but that was what made me so excited. And then on stage, it's…

— Justin Nozuka

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something…

— Dimebag Darrell

I've never been this loud personality. I don't dominate the room when I walk into it. I save that for stage.

— Maren Morris

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

— Robert Englund