Stage Quotes

• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Chekhov

• I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Stage
  • Lyrics
  • Sing

• A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Actor

• 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
  • Why
  • May
  • Act

• I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Together
  • Career
  • Actors

• The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

  

  Plato
  • Beginning
  • Stage
  • Enterprise

• You have a lot of stages as an actor.

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Actors
  • 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.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Stage
  • Too Much
  • Sure

• I must stress that it is still a suspected case at this stage and the experts are still investigating.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Stress
  • Stage
  • Investigating

• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Way
  • Certain

• I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Stage
  • Sides
  • Likes

• I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Performers
  • Dean Martin
  • Celine Dion

• And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

  

  Nigel Lythgoe
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Protective

• 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
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Jokes

• The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

  

  Arthur Tress
  • Information
  • Stage
  • Frame

• 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
  • Work
  • Song
  • Band

• I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

  

  Augustus
  • Stage
  • Played
  • Dismiss

• But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Stage
  • Comfortable
  • Screw Up

• Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.

  

  Nick Valensi The Strokes
  • Stage
  • Stomach
  • Explode

• I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

  

  Damien Dempsey
  • Nice
  • Alright
  • Acoustic

• I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.

  

  Eric Hutchinson
  • Feeling
  • Stage
  • Crowd

• Have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.

  

  Becky Freeman
  • Comedy
  • Noticed
  • Microphone

• I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Stage

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