Stage Quotes

• Actually I don’t need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It’s a wonderful way to escape. I think I can’t stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • My Life
  • Escape
  • Nothingness

• On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Enjoy
  • Stories

• The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Acting
  • Camera
  • Trick

• For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Stage
  • Laugh

• I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

  

  Stephen Lang
  • Control
  • Stage
  • Adrenaline

• God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Church
  • Garden
  • Grows

• If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Stage

• I don't know what young people want to hear anymore. The first person who comes up and asks me for Bon Jovi risks a ritual disembowelling on stage... and that's a promise.

  

  John Peel
  • Stage
  • Hear
  • Risks

• Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Growing
  • Stage
  • Advantages

• Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Energy
  • Leadership
  • Stuff

• Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.

  

  Anthony Gonzalez
  • Passion
  • Joy
  • Stage

• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Exception

• With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • People
  • Film
  • Television

• I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Matter
  • Actors
  • Honestly

• I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Feelings
  • Childhood
  • Parent

• The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Audience
  • Details
  • Boundaries

• I love to go on stage and sing.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stage

• When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sushant-singh-rajput-quotes_2

  

  Sushant Singh Rajput
  • Stage
  • Camera
  • I Am Not

• I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Art
  • Stage
  • Theater

• If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Stage

• I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Stage
  • Airplane
  • Hotel

• I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Fun
  • Night
  • Film

• You don’t get into it to be on the front of the stage, you do it to build cultures and environments. But it’s great, it’s fun. It feels like a rite of passage.

  

  Max Lousada
  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Stage

• I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Stage

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