Best 650 quotes in «stage quotes» category

Stage fright is my worst problem.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

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

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

The fact that you have the ability to stand on stage and sing while you’re crying is so brave.

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.

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

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

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

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.

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.

The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

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

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

There are many stages of grief.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

There's something very refreshing about being on stage.

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

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.