Stage Quotes
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If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
Grace Slick Starship
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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.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore
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Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
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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.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Lauren Bacall
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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.
George Clooney
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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
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It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.
Will Chase
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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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Put me on stage and I'm happy.
Mick Ralphs
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael Jackson
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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.
Joyce DiDonato
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim
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My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
Eric Thomas
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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.
Emma Stone
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I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.
Morfydd Clark
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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.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.
Misty Copeland
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I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!
Jaclyn Victor
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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.
Steve Martin
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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
Steven Millhauser
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And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.
Sharron Angle
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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.
Nils Frahm