Stage Quotes

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

I feel energized walking off stage.

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

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"

Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am.

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.

I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

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

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.