Stage famous quotes

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
-- Aaliyah

#Fun #Never Forget #Stage

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
-- Adam Levine

#Goes On #One Love #Stage

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
-- Al Pacino

#Earth #Stage #Magnet

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
-- Alan King

#Book #Stories #Stage

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Principles #Hydrogen #Stage

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Cynical #Adultery #Stage

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Disappointment #Stage #Disillusion

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Teenage #Adultery #Stage

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Careers #Stage

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.
-- Amy Schumer

#Thinking #Years #Stage

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#Stage

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Kids #Gender #Stage

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.
-- Andy Williams

#Stage #Keep Going

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
-- Annie Lennox

#Girl #Want #Stage

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Scared #Stage

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Longing #Stage

The stage is my first love.
-- Anthony Mackie

#First Love #Firsts #Stage

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Stage #Audience

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Thinking #Rifles #Stage

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Theatre #Conventions #Stage

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Tragedy #Enough #Stage

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
-- Antony Tudor

#Dance #Body #Stage

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Actors #Theater #Stage

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Doors #Next #Stage

My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.
-- Armin van Buuren

#Names #Belts #Stage

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
-- Arthur Ashe

#Stage

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!
-- Ashley Tisdale

#People #Stage #Performing

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Development #World #Stage

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#People #Stage #Agree

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
-- Barbara Hambly

#People #Different #Stage

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Girl #Way #Stage

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Mean #Dancer #Stage

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Who I Am #Stage #Performers

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Technique #Stage #Thousand

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Roles #Done #Stage

The stage is near and dear to me.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Stage #Dear

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Actors #Stage #Performances

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
-- Ben Goldacre

#Trials #Disease #Stage

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
-- Ben Harper

#Different #Stage #Persons

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
-- Ben Horowitz

#Investment #Stage #Great Company

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
-- Ben Vereen

#Creative #Trying #Stage

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
-- Ben Vereen

#Energy #Made #Stage

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Views #Architecture #Stage

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.
-- Bill Hayden

#Release #Stage #Feels

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
-- Bill Nighy

#People #Stage #Walks

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
-- Billy Crystal

#World #Stage #Muscles

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
-- Bob Dylan

#Life #Inspire #Stage

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
-- Bobby Womack

#Perfect #Sick #Stage

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.
-- Brad Dourif

#Rehearsal #Film #Stage

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
-- Brian Molko

#Dresses #Social #Stage

I definitely get stage fright.
-- Bridgit Mendler

#Stage #Stage Fright #Fright

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
-- Britt Ekland

#Ideas #Theatre #Stage

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
-- Brooke Burke

#Energy #Spontaneity #Stage

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.
-- Carl De Keyzer

#Reality #Trying #Stage

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
-- Carl Sagan

#Earth #Arena #Stage

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
-- Carly Simon

#Annie #Bigs #Stage

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.
-- Cat Deeley

#Winning #Stage

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.
-- Cat Stevens

#Kissing #Fame #Stage

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Stage

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Thinking #Stage #Wanted

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.
-- Celia Cruz

#Stage

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
-- Celia Imrie

#Acting #Goes On #Stage

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.
-- Chad Harbach

#Three #Return #Stage

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
-- Charles Durning

#Stage

I do belong on stage.
-- Chris Daughtry

#Stage

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.
-- Chris Matthews

#Done #Boost #Stage

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.
-- Christine Taylor

#Kids #Different #Stage

We kind of deny the stages of life.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Kind #Deny #Stage

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.
-- Clarke Peters

#Actors #Stage #Performances

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
-- Clea DuVall

#Quiet #Stage

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
-- Clive James

#Horse #Enough #Stage

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.
-- Colbie Caillat

#Night #Going Out #Stage

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

#Believe #World #Stage

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.
-- Conor Maynard

#Black #Watches #Stage

When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.
-- Constantin Stanislavski

#Stage #Here And Now

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
-- Criss Angel

#Television #Stage #Tricks

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.
-- Curtis Armstrong

#Vision #Actors #Stage

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Song #Emotion #Stage

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
-- Damian Lewis

#Scripts #Unfair #Stage

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
-- Danny Boyle

#Giving #Way #Stage

Stage time, stage time, stage time.
-- Darren LaCroix

#Stage

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
-- Dave Chappelle

#Real #Adults #Stage

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
-- David Byrne

#People #Faces #Stage

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Tvs #Stage

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
-- David Copperfield

#Cards #Deck Of Cards #Stage

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

#Being Human #Demigods #Stage

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
-- David Duchovny

#Television #Film #Stage

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.
-- David Gill

#Expansion #Feasibility #Stage

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
-- David Johansen

#Memphis #Too Much #Stage

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
-- David Lee Roth

#World #Want #Stage

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
-- David Lee Roth

#Should #Stage #Participation

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.
-- David Nail

#Like You #Stage #Bonding

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.
-- David Wenham

#Cameras #More Time #Stage

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
-- Davy Jones

#Edinburgh #Firsts #Stage

Being on stage is what I enjoy.
-- Debbie Gibson

#Stage #Enjoy

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.
-- Denis Leary

#Stage

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.
-- Dennis Wilson

#Beach #Boys #Stage

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
-- Diana Rigg

#Careers #Generations #Stage

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
-- Diane Setterfield

#Reading #Joy #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.
-- Dizzy Gillespie

#Jazz #Miles #Stage