Stage Quotes

• Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Write
  • Stage
  • Plays

• The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Conflict
  • Landscape
  • Westerns

• 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

• I love the stage more than the studio.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Stage
  • I Love
  • Studio

• I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Nasty

• 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 generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We use a lot of visuals on stage, so I kind of hope people are watching those and not looking at me.

  

  Dan Smith
  • Black
  • Clothes
  • Wear

• I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

  

  Sunidhi Chauhan
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Dancing

• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Stage
  • Acoustic Guitar

• You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Forget
  • London
  • Sprawling

• Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.

  

  Arthur Mitchell
  • Skin
  • Colors
  • Civil Rights

• 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

• My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Respect
  • Wife
  • Backs

• The midget, ... the first time he rode the bike that he comes out on, he just gassed it, man. He pulled an Evel Knievel off the front of the stage. It was pretty crazy.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Crazy
  • Stage
  • Bike

• We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Reason
  • Progress
  • Stage

• Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Stage
  • Fortunate
  • Salvador Dali

• I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Value
  • Stage
  • Face

• 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 was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike Jackson, I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Remember
  • Obsessed
  • Showman

• I like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little tiring because you don't sleep in your own bed, you're in a different hotel every night and the hours are really strange, which, for me, kind of works out because I'm a bit nocturnal in general. I think for some people it might be tougher than for others because you're usually not getting to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning at the earliest.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Strange

• You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Hours
  • Republican
  • Exciting

• You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Drug
  • Guitar
  • Falling

• We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Stage
  • Reaction
  • Psychological reaction

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