Stage Quotes
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.
Jemaine Clement
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Andy Gibb
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
Edgar Wright
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.
Epictetus
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
Jack Lowden
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I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
Patrick Macnee
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I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
Ed Balls
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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Yeah, ... because a six-foot stage to him is like jumping off a 30-story building for us.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
Rachel Platten
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On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
Anthony Quinn
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
Imelda Staunton
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
Jack Whitehall
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
Gary Barlow Take That
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People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored.
Patsy Cline
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Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.
Cat Deeley
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We were doing this outdoor show in Salt Lake City, we were about a mile above sea level to start with and it was about 45 minutes before I got my first break. During the sound check they didn't have a drape up but for the show they put it up right behind the drum kit. When I got up, the lighting rig was really low and I hit my head on it, and grabbed hold of what I thought was a solid wall but it was the drape and I fell off the back of the stage. I almost lost a testicle. I had quite a bruise.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
Sabrina Carpenter
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
Leon Uris