Stage Quotes

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

I never felt I left the stage.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

All the world's a stage.

I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

Once you’ve actually died on stage… I mean, how do you top that?

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.