Stage Quotes

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

Bleep if I was going to stage a rescue in a freaking pantsuit.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

Anytime you walk onto a stage or something where there's lots of people staring at you, you need to have something inspiring inside your head. Bolstering.

I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals

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

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I don't stage my own publicity.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

I ain't acting when I'm on stage. That's why all the little love bugs who'll come and see me at Lovebox love me. They know it's the real me.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

The stage is home, and there's no place like it.

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

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

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go

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.

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

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

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

You have a lot of stages as an actor.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.