Stage Quotes

• The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Comfortable
  • Conversations
  • Real Life

• It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.

  

  Steve Wilkos
  • Story
  • Stage
  • Policeman

• Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Lucky
  • Numbers
  • Auditions

• 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.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Ability
  • Skills
  • Keep Up

• I’m at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn’t started.

  

  Adele Parks
  • Job
  • Stage
  • Started

• 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.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Choose
  • I Know
  • I Feel

• I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Smart
  • Teeth
  • Brush

• I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Stage

• I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • My Life
  • Stage
  • Joke

• Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Eight
  • Necks
  • Cartwheels

• If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Stage
  • Rock N Roll

• Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Acceptance

• 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.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Performance
  • Ruined
  • Arc

• ... 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.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Persons
  • Crisis
  • Privilege

• I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

  

  Teyana Taylor
  • Stage
  • Comfortable

• I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Gift
  • Performance

• I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

  

  Marilyn Horne
  • People
  • Home
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Book
  • Discipline
  • Minutes

• I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Career
  • Players
  • Developing

• When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Stressful

• You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Important
  • Winning

• I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Remember
  • Fear
  • Minutes

• 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.

  

  Amy Plum
  • Feet
  • Bed
  • Bedroom

• 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

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