Stage Quotes

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

There's something very refreshing about being on stage.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.

I'm not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.