Stage Quotes

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

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 depends.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.