Stage Quotes

• 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

• You have a lot of stages as an actor.

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Actors
  • Stage

• 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

• I was so excited that everyone would even say yes to sharing the stage. Mastodon, Diamanda [Galas], Antony [Hegarty]... I felt like a little kid, and I don't even know if we deserved it, but I've always thought ours was the most diverse so far. Hopefully Barry will let us do it again...

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • Stage
  • Excited
  • Little Kid

• Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Stage
  • Reaction

• 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
  • Enjoy
  • Nervous
  • Butterfly

• On one hand I like to be very secluded, on the other hand I love to be on the center of the stage.

  

  Eric Dill The Click Five
  • Like
  • Center
  • Secluded

• I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

  

  Celia Cruz
  • Stage
  • Dies

• Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Problem
  • Stage
  • Solving

• You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Stage
  • Eat
  • Eaten

• The best part really is once I'm up on the stage.

  

  Harry Wayne Casey KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Stage
  • Really
  • Best Part

• The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Nature
  • Style
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Manika
  • Rock
  • Butterfly
  • Perform

• 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
  • Believe
  • Stage
  • Spectator

• I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Baby
  • Stage
  • Breeze

• A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Past
  • Shows
  • Theatrical

• When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Singing

• Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Stage
  • Stones
  • Boston Garde

• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Government
  • Dependent
  • Bondage

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

  

  Erving Goffman
  • World
  • Way
  • Easy

• In 1979 in Wolverhampton at a club I forgot the name of, my trousers split, luckily up the back. I duct-taped them together just before we went on. I didn't have any spare ones. I've had a few stupid incidents where things have been thrown on stage, but nothing that would put me off going on stage.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Stupid
  • Incidents
  • Forgot

• It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

  

  Shawn Fanning
  • Receiving
  • Downloads
  • Server

• 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

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