Stage Quotes

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.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.

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

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

It doesn’t matter where I stand; whether at the front or at the back, in the middle or at the side. As long as I can get on stage and do what I love, that’s enough for me.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I’m really alive when I’m on stage.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage