Stage Quotes · Page 99

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

— Joe Dempsie

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

— Vaginal Davis

When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.

— Alan Menken

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

— Robin Williams

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

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

— Pedro Martinez

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

— Sunidhi Chauhan

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

— Leo Sayer

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior…

— Bruce Springsteen

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right…

— Constance Baker Motley

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers…

— Jonathan Groff

I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because…

— Chris Gethard

People see me on stage and sometimes they think, "Who's this hotdog thinking that he's the best." They miss the point that…

— Girl Talk

Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners…

— Tahl Raz

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the…

— Joan Jett

I don't think I would have been able to exist in any kind of joyful, peaceful way if I hadn't been able…

— Simon Amstell

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really…

— Matisyahu

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You…

— Melody Beattie

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…

— Russell Kirk

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles…

— Eric Hoffer

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with…

— Michael Ondaatje

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the…

— Lena Dunham

Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when…

— Max Wertheimer

When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on…

— Amar'e Stoudemire

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

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

— Asha Bhosle

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

— Ryan Hall

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

— James Corden

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

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

— Toby Stephens

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

— George Benjamin

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

— Lucinda Riley

There is something liberating and defiant about going on stage and saying you are 36 and 13 stone.

— Sarah Millican

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I…

— Janel Parrish