Stage Quotes

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

I think on stage theres a side of me that comes out thats very fierce and confident.

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that

I'm not a big raised stage fan.

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.