Stage Quotes
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Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
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I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.
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A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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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.
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Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
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Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
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On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.
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That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.
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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.
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I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.
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On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.
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It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.
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Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble
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Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
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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.
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Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.
