Best Stage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.”

Young Stage Crisis Marketing Quarters Schemes Stages Of Life Life Crisis

Author:Jill Lepore

“My awkward stage extended well into high school.”

Wells School Stage High School Awkward

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

Knows Writing Play Song Stage Band

Author:Adam Levine

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

Children Stills Young Stage Involved Adults Young Adult My Children Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

People Enough Turns Stars Millions Minutes Rocks Stage Fronts Tvs Thousand Lucky Concerts Rock Star Spinal Tap

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.”

Desire Stage Goes On Offers Intention Despise Vague Vocation Lectures

Author:Mary MacLane

“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Stage

Author:Pedro Martinez

“It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.”

Country Stage Beats London Realistic

Author:Stella McCartney

“Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.”

Energy Stage Crowds Nerves Wipe

Author:Thia Megia

“Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.”

Heart Persons Stage My Heart Singing Best Things Describing

Author:Thia Megia

“The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.”

People World Way Able Share Stage Music Is Connections Albums Compliment Best Experiences

Author:Vanessa Mae

“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

Actors House Stage Car New York Summer Garage Making A Living Stage Actors

Author:William H. Macy

“I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.”

Stage Who I Am Performers

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.”

Play Stage Sitting Theater Seats Junkie

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.”

Feels Courses Bits Stage Like You Bonding

Author:David Nail

“I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.”

Past Young Growing Stage Months Adults Shoes Young Adult Manuals

Author:Graham Nelson

“Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.”

Stage Acquaintance

Author:Mojo Nixon

“I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.”

Wells Nice Stage Band

Author:Randy Newman

“You have to open up on stage.”

Stage

Author:Karen O

“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”

Different States Feelings Grief Stage Wave

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

People Self Belief Acting Careers Stage Example Goes On Affirmation Belief In Self Enticing

Author:Miranda Otto

“The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.”

Men Cases Study Stage Raises Mere Missions Psychological Operations Aspiration Physiological

Author:Richard Owen

“I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.”

Thinking Stage Fine Window Nervous

Author:Rita Ora

“As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.”

Film Roles Audience Stage Good Films

Author:Kevin Pollak

“A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.”

People Littles Long Able Attention Stage Long Time Paid Long Time Ago

Author:Lauren Potter

“As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.”

Education Stage Degrees Picks Distance

Author:Bob Dylan

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“The stage is near and dear to me.”

Stage Dear

Author:Bela Lugosi

“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.”

Children Wanted Girl Stage Fashion Design Industry Clothes Shoes My Thoughts Fashion Industry

Author:Christian Louboutin

“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.”

Knows Firsts One Thing Stage First Time Quitting June I Quit

Author:George Lopez

“I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.”

People Thinking Might Deals Cases Stage Pounds

Author:James Laughlin

“In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.”

Levels Stage Movement Dancer Swimming Ballet Gravity Floats Abolish Right Direction Ballet Dancer Sprinters

Author:Alexander Dale Oen

“As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.”

Kids Stage Gender Barriers Realising

Author:Andrej Pejic

“I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.”

Actors Stage Performances Stage Actors

Author:Clarke Peters

“I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.”

Said Reason Shows Stage Annoying

Author:Ron Pope

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

Firsts Film Crazy Stage Dad Shots Universal My Dad Studios Credit Actresses Grandmother Forty Contracts My Grandmother Universal Studios

Author:Chris Pine

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.”

Firsts Special Stage Majors Musical Special To Me Evita

Author:Elaine Paige

“I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.”

Way Stage Grew Projects Grew Up

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.”

Actors Stage Chicago Stage Actors

Author:Jeremy Piven

“When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.”

Growing Up Growing Stage

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.”

Reality Actors Stage Opposites Agents Sharks Midwest Stage Actors

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.”

People Thinking Should Laughing Stage Stupid Comfortable Standing Stupid Things Very Stupid

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.”

Kids Wanted Young Actors Stage New York Naive Stage Actors

Author:Oliver Platt

“I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.”

Wells Games Race Behinds Week Team Stage Finals Rounds Preparation Posts Good Times Phenomenal Best Times Olympic Games Personal Best

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.”

Results Stage Talent Investors Drains

Author:Sean Parker

“I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.”

Littles Play Dream Next Stage Calling Guitar Rhythm Springsteen

Author:Tom Perrotta

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.”

Thinking Way Stills Different Grows Player Stage Ready Hockey Just Being Hockey Player

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.”

Ifs Film Acting Stage Huge Naked Gym Workout Richard Ii

Author:Eddie Redmayne

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