Stage Quotes

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

Annie Lalley is one of the funniest and most likable personalities you'll ever see on stage --which makes the depth of her songwriting all the more striking

I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

There is nothing like being on stage.

I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

When I enter a club and hear my song being played, I feel like it's not really my song and when I see people dancing to my song, I feel like jumping up on stage and treating them to drinks.

I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.