Stage Quotes

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

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

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.

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

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.

The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.