Stage Quotes
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It's just a great joy to get back together on a stage 30 years later and be able to do it.
Eric Carmen -
I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
Luke Grimes -
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
Suzanne Farrell -
I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.
Conan O'Brien -
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
Sara Blakely -
I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.
Itzhak Perlman
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
Virginia Satir -
The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Allan Sherman -
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.
Pauline Frederick -
You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.
Easton Corbin -
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
Plato
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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.
Avery Sunshine -
I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
Alan Alda -
Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
Loretta Lynn -
All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Patton Oswalt -
There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
Karen Allen -
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.
Confucius
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
Bela Lugosi -
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.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist -
I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
Johnny Hallyday -
Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons