Stage Quotes

• I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.

  

  Craig Nicholls
  • Knows
  • Stage
  • Half

• When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

  

  Morfydd Clark
  • Interesting
  • Something
  • Concentration

• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  

  Eugene Hutz
  • Music
  • Passion
  • High School

• You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Character
  • Death
  • Script

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

  

  Adele Parks
  • Job
  • Stage
  • Started

• 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
  • Control
  • Singing
  • Stage

• We don't go on about trying to save the Brazilian rain forest. We're not ashamed of the fact that we can write lyrics like Let's Get Rocked which 99 percent of the world thinks is completely ridiculous, stupid and immature. If George Bush stood up on stage and pretended to be Eddie Van Halen that would be ridiculous, so when I see the Billy Braggs of this world using music as a soapbox it pisses me off. Music should always entertain, first and foremost. Nobody would take us seriously if we did songs like shut the ozone layer, save the rain forests, stop killing people in Bosnia. Everybody would laugh at us. I'd rather listen to Noddy Holder (Slade) sing about nothing at all than do a duet with Sinead O'Connor. We're not that desperate for publicity. We'll always be Leppard.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Laugh
  • Forest
  • Killing

• No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.

  

  Barbara Rose
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Divine Light

• We Paramore are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that our crowd and the audience that comes to our shows brings out of us. Different people bring different sides out of each other, and for sure our fans bring out the most hyper and ridiculous side of us because we get so psyched to see everyone when we're on stage.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • People
  • Home
  • Audience

• I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Sleep
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• 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.

  

  David Albert
  • Family
  • Forever
  • Priorities

• 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
  • Differences
  • Pages
  • Backgrounds

• Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

  

  Hattie Morahan
  • Believe
  • Acting
  • Audience

• I think anything is a realistic option at this stage, We can't rule anything out in the future.

  

  Chris Pronger
  • Rule
  • Option
  • Cannot

• I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Forget
  • Stage
  • Musicians

• And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

  

  Michael Schiavo
  • Picture
  • Doctor
  • Diagnosis

• A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

  

  William Shatner
  • Audience
  • Actors
  • Performing

• 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

• It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Time
  • Long
  • Church

• You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Understand

• When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Stage
  • Sing
  • Persona

• Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

  

  Will Barnet
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
  • Actors
  • Stage
  • Conductors

• There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • Control
  • Audience
  • Stage

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