Best Onstage Quotations
380 Onstage quotes by 322 unique authors
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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
— Micky Dolenz
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Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep…
— Cliff Burton
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It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do…
— Kerry King
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I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I…
— Michael Richards
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
— Elaine Stritch
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Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes…
— Carol Channing
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When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not…
— Patsy Rodenburg
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I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as…
— Gretchen Mol
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I…
— Kanye West
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I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk…
— Jon Foreman
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I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you?'
— Kanye West
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In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin’ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not…
— Buddy Wakefield
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
— Lorna Luft
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Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that…
— Rick Allen
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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act;…
— Kate Clinton
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When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.
— Chubby Checker
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I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
— Kerry King
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Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen…
— Flavor Flav
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We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.
— John Gallagher, Jr.
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We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call…
— Steven Van Zandt
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I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll…
— Zach Galifianakis
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
— Faye Dunaway
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Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've…
— Trent Reznor
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I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
— Keith Jarrett
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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent…
— Drake
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