Stage Quotes
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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.
Lewis Capaldi
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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
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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
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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
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
Johnny Hallyday
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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
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
Alan Alda
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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
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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
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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.
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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
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On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.
Scott Snyder
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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.
Lynn Fontanne
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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
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Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
Sara Blakely
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I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.
Paul Stanley Kiss
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
George Bernard Shaw
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Jasmila Zbanic
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I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.
Manning Marable
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Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.
Russell Peters
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The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.
Michael Jackson
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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