Stage Quotes

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.