Stage Quotes
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I will be very calm because I am dreaming this so I will wake up in five minutes in Sarajevo. I'm dreaming that I'm here on this stage and dreaming that I'm here in Berlin.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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Music is anti-intellectual. It's non-literal, and you have to find out what makes the director happy. You want to let someone hear what you're thinking about. Because if you get to the stage, and the director says "I wasn't thinking like that," then your score won't be in the movie.
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I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.
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I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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The best part really is once I'm up on the stage.
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When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.
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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
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Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.
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Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.
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I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.
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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
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That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.
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I’ve got a lot of people depending on me. I found I couldn’t lay down on my job. I was a nervous wreck and ready of a sanitarium. Then I decided to go back to the stage. To see of there was any of the real Pauline Frederick left. To find out if I could act after all these years of waste. I went back to the stage two years ago. It has been my salvation.
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.
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I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
