Stage Quotes
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My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.
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I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.
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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.
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I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.
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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.
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I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.
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The music works by itself, but you can change the perception of it by the way you dress, the way you move, the things you say, the things you don't say. And when you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. There's a kind of liberation to that.
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Set the stage, record, then listen.
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Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
