Stage Quotes
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I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
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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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I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.
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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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I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
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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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It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.
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I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg...
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
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Set the stage, record, then listen.
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I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.
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Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.
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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.
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... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
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My kids only come around once in my lifetime, and they (hopefully) won't be with me forever. I chose to have them, and I choose, freely, to make them and my family a priority in my life. This stage of life won't last forever. While it does, I've climbed on for the ride.
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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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To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
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I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
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When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
