Best Stage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.”

Humans Understanding Ability Worry Impossible Stage Pure Competition Notion Track Complicated Complexity Exploits Physiology Accentuate Complexity Of Human

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.”

People Way Said Lying Guy Simple Healing Stage Bed Lows Blessed Profound Instant Get Away Liars One Time Going Out Severe Get Real Alleviate Highs And Lows Keel

Author:Mel Gibson

“I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.”

Girl Names Saws Stage Performing Yelling Performing On Stage

Author:Prince Royce

“But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.”

People Feels Play Bigs Age Stage Fronts Ready Basketball Passionate

Author:Lil B

“It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.”

People Thinking Film Actors Opinion Stage Contrary Mediums Conventional Bothered Conventional Wisdom

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.”

Film Certain Stage Discipline Standards Ultimate Critics

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.”

Want Stage Mercy

Author:Jack Nicholson

“An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.”

World Eye Audience Stage Dangerous Cold Paid Casts Secure Dangerous Things Cold Eyes

Author:Christopher Walken

“I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.”

Happens Remember Stage Expectations Necks Expecting Oscars Hopkins

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.”

Ifs Trying Reality Film Sound Acting Air Stage Fronts Goes On Happenings Tricks Fishing

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.”

Ifs Feels May Might Running Night Causes Enjoy Audience Too Much Stage Terrible Performances Mascara Terrible Times

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.”

Thinking Wells Talking Stage Couple Jokes Sitting Twenties Dollars Desks Bucks Retard

Author:Larry David

“I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.”

People Ifs Matter Shows Wanted Lines Path Comedy Stage Tvs Hundred Okay Folks Clubs Resistance Get Up Tv Shows Auditions Folk Music Path Of Least Resistance

Author:Steve Martin

“It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.”

Important Real Use Names Records Stage

Author:RuPaul

“I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.”

People Thinking Hard Reason Night Audience Stage Phones Get Up More Time Performers Really Great Bathroom Turned Off

Author:Demetri Martin

“There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!”

Shows Dream Rooms Audience Stage Jokes Letters Hypocrisy Living Room Nightclubs

Author:Johnny Carson

“My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.”

Knows Littles Ideas Faces Bits Stage Little Bit Your Face Persona Better Than You Pretentious Crass

Author:Bo Burnham

“It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.”

Feels Important Play Character Happens Names Interesting Share Stage Communicate Main Characters

Author:Bo Burnham

“Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.”

Mind Process Stage Design Projects Designer Explaining Exhausting Collaborating

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.”

People Made Stage Fronts Performances Saloons

Author:Don Rickles

“I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.”

People Ifs Feels Firsts Art Feelings Games Emotion Stage

Author:Kirko Bangz

“For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!”

Ifs Men Shows Bigs Artist Next Deals Stage Goes On Couple Drink Female Mad Meetings Bars Big Deal Female Artists

Author:Chris Johnson

“I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.”

Eye Differences Stage Musical Who I Am These Days Momentum Public Eye I Am Who I Am

Author:Neil Young

“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.”

Thinking Kind Together Individual Stuff Results Happened Stage Bigger Witness Collectives Alchemy

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.”

Pain Father Peace Behinds Stage Promise Scene Disappointment Backgrounds Frustration Temporary Anguish Assurance Stages Of Life

Author:Richard G. Scott

“The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.”

Turns One Thing Stage Majority Rate All Time Indian Wheels Transition Spinning

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.”

Men Self Four Stage Discipline Hinduism Restraint Imposing Seers Self Restraint

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”

Way Writing Rooms Known Stage Solutions Sticks Endure Patient Isolation Civilized Tamed

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!”

I Can Humor Funny Next Waiting Stage Pockets Pineapples

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.”

Mean I Can Shows Humor Light Funny Left Minutes Worst Stage Red Method Clubs Frightened Candle Floating Red Lights

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.”

World Writing Trying Years Littles Ideas Bits Special Stage This World Paper Little Bit Notes

Author:Jim Jefferies

“Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.”

Knows Book Character Happens Simple Stage Development Discipline Meetings Prepared Track Things Happen Smooth Editing Be Prepared Tricky Meeting Someone

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.”

Giving Wells Whole Past Beautiful Certain Order Felt Stage Like You Drink Studios Whole Life Hotel My Past

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.”

People I Can Worry Share Stage Hatred Filled Rough Scorn I Can Read

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.”

Mean Different Jobs Humanity Opportunity Stage Meaningful Meaningful Work Working Life

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen.”

People Ideas Reason Stories Stage Creating Throwing Back When Creating Stories

Author:Mike Mayhall

“I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.”

Way Attention Five Teacher Player Stage Dad Lessons Guitar My Dad Guitar Player Basics Attention Span

Author:Jason Aldean

“Sometimes it’s gin or sometimes it’s some champagne, and sometimes I go on stage with nothing at all. I’m turnt up, naturally.”

Sometimes Stage Goes On Champagne Gin

Author:Juicy J

“It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.”

Play Wanted Fun Stage Jokes Villain

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.”

Stills Stage Smart Jokes Complaining Comedian One Liner Whining One Line

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.”

Trying Looks Has Beens Said Character Stories Voice Stage Stupid Genius Jokes Crosses Impression Checks Chickens Chicks Telling Stories

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.”

People Knows Feelings Silence Happened Stage Sitting Edges Seats Silence Is Sitting On The Edge

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.”

Trying Stills Young Careers Support Stage Trade Magician Cartoonist Skater

Author:Jason Mraz

“I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.”

Knows Feels Mean Rooms Acting Stage Negative Barack Ranking Very Famous

Author:David Tennant

“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.”

Years Littles Book Self Stuff Numbers Audience Stage Sells Dollars Silly Selling Pockets Cents Publishing Melbourne Silly Stuff

Author:Andy Griffiths

“I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.”

Thinking Trying Enjoy Audience Stage Draws Add Enjoyed

Author:Bo Burnham

“People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Kids School Stars Situation Team Stage Drama Truth Is Sitting Like Me Factories Going Out Doing Nothing Arses

Author:Amy Winehouse

“My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.”

Men Beautiful House Voice Cases Stage Dad Singing My Dad Realising Nasty Teenage Playing Around Beautiful Voice

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.”

Real School Voice Can Do Stage Quiet Loud Sensitivity Subtlety Quiet Voice

Author:Amy Winehouse

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