Stage Quotes

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

The stage is near and dear to me.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

All the world's not a stage.

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.