Stage Quotes

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.