Best 650 quotes in «stage quotes» category

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

It was the best night of my life, getting to dance on stage with Madonna!

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

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

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

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

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

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've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.

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

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.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.

I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

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

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

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

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