Best 650 quotes in «stage quotes» category

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.

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

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

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

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

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

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

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

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

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.

On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

People at different stages of their lives are doing different things, and they're all using Google.

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.

People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

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

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.