Stage Quotes

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.

The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

Get out on the stage of life.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

I go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.