Stage Quotes
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For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.
Wole Soyinka
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I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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It's like Hollywood. The stage is set. All you're going to see out there is a bunch of cameras flashing, a lot of fans sitting back relaxing and waiting to see who the best team is going to be.
Chuck Darby
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People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.
Estelle
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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
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You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.
Grace Slick Starship
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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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I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.
Eva Marie Saint
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I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
Jordan Bridges
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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.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Constance Marie
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When you go on stage, there's part of you being a sexual beast.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.
Ernie Hudson
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Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.
William Morris Davis
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I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
Joyce DiDonato
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Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
Etta James
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Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.
Noel Fielding
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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 personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Eugene Ionesco
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It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.
Nickolas Ashford
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe