Stage Quotes

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

What appealed to me about the whole production is how big it is. I don't do musicals because I don't sing very well. But this is the biggest stage thing I'll do that's not a musical.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.

American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

I'm a weirdo that goes on stage to make strangers laugh, but if I wasn't working, I would just want to be with my wife and kids. I don't even think I'd want to go out to dinner.

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.

The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.