Stage Quotes
3309 Stage quotes by 2413 unique authors
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Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on…
— Hayley Mills
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I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and…
— Henning Mankell
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I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's…
— St. Vincent
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions…
— Vernor Vinge
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I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
— Kevin Whately
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A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
— Karl Shapiro
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be…
— Olivia Williams
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As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble…
— Rebecca Wells
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The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can…
— Rick Wakeman
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
— Warren Zevon
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
— Warren Zevon
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces…
— Wei Jingsheng
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
— Billy Crystal
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I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do…
— Penelope Keith
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You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?'…
— Gene Hackman
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I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to…
— Mel Torme
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I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.
— Kenny Rogers
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When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for…
— Bobby McFerrin
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
— Larry Speakes
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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
— Ben Kingsley
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The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing…
— Henri Poincare
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American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on…
— George Mikes
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One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a…
— Dave Barry
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Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently…
— Albert Einstein
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It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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