Best Stage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 28

“People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.”

People Ifs Different Kids Stuff Deals Groups Stage Relate Different Times Having Kids Sync

Author:Jon Hamm

“The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.”

Ifs Firsts Stories Wanted Stage Truth Is Permission

Author:Amy Schumer

“"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore.”

Needs Night Song Animal Steps Stage Slave My Favorite Defense Swings Every Night Reminders Relentless Armor Hinder Anthem Favorite Song

Author:Andrew Ripp

“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.”

Ifs Kind Body Song Sex Air Stage Like You Ears Distance Having Sex

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.”

Wells Kind Light Song Stage Manage

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.”

Ifs Persons Would Be Laughing Stage Bears Comment

Author:Mila Kunis

“I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.”

Care Three Causes Creative Stage Serious Ambition Projects Charity Permanent Philanthropy Website Fundraising Three Friends

Author:Edward Norton

“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.”

Made Ideas Whole Artist Three Careers Stage Painting Elements Good Ideas Skeletons

Author:Josh Smith

“It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.”

Made Light Names Four Stage Wall Type Sculpture

Author:Josh Smith

“I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.”

Thinking Play Bigs Fans Stage

Author:Ed Westwick

“As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.”

Mind Kids Young Decision Advice Stage Football Financial Focused Adviser Playing Football Financial Advice

Author:Robbie Fowler

“When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."”

People Knows Want Shows Brain Know How Happened Magic Stage Like You Hats Fascinated Magician Rabbits Attending

Author:Gaspar Noe

“I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans Stage Events Behavior Ears Memoir Helpful Concerts Biographies Human Behavior

Author:Jeanine Tesori

“To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.”

People Way Hands Age Night Stage Mark Shame Myth Old Age Useless Officials Our Society Old Fashioned Old People Inability Spotlight Good Night Impotence Center Stage

Author:Sam Keen

“I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.”

People Writing Kind Mean Home Song Stage Guitar Hanging Out Joyous Playing Music

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.”

Wells Feelings Light Able Opportunity Stage Tools Microphones Great Feelings Bright Lights

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.”

Want Home Night Stage Get Up Bored Every Night

Author:Zakk Wylde

“Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.”

Littles Shows Actors Situation Stage Tvs Fine Actresses Performing Tv Shows

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.”

Thinking Years Kind Different Behinds Doors Stage Movement Years Ago Climate March Now And Then Urgency Closed Doors Lobbying Behind Closed Doors

Author:Avi Lewis

“If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Ideas Seems Achieve Stage Pages Setting Settings

Author:Don DeLillo

“Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.”

People Ifs Feels Firsts Kind Sometimes Running Moving Lying Energy Stage Easier Quiet Down And Access Release Ease Vigorous Actually Doing Something

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.”

People Men War Character Seems Actors Perfect Stage He Man Revolution Men And Women Dresses Photograph Civil War Performers Uniforms Costumes Handsome Pageant Brady Stage Actors

Author:David McCullough

“If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.”

Ifs Want Writing Passion Stars Walks Practice Rocks Stage Sticks Fingers Filmmaking Rock Star Garage

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.”

World War Stories Inspiration Seems Stage Source Lifetime War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I September September 11 Source Of Inspiration Source Of Strength

Author:David McCullough

“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.”

People Way Mind Shows Seems Would Be Felt Interesting Accepting Watches Stage Fool Interesting Ways

Author:Fiona Apple

“I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.”

Guy Girl Stage Average Dump Paychecks

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.”

Want Stage Flow Studios Thread

Author:Damien Rice

“My sound has changed. It's still hiphop, but it's more of like a rock/hip-hop show. It's high energy, stage diving, pyrotechnics, girls showing their breasts. It's crazy party atmosphere.”

Stills Shows Girl Energy Sound Party Crazy Rocks Stage Changed Hip Hop Hips Atmosphere Breasts Hops Diving High Energy Pyrotechnics

Author:Vanilla Ice

“I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.”

Ifs Way Trying Past Song Rooms Audience Stage Drinking Silly Tea Relate Kitchen Making Up Drinking Tea

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.”

Men Want Believe Made Said Speak Black Stage Poet Tvs Luck Bunch Made It They Said Unlikely Asian Latino Right Place Speak English Saying Nothing

Author:Russell Simmons

“You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.”

Feels Years Littles Made Together Faces Darkness Audience Crazy Stage Hair Ass Necks Appropriate Nuts Memorial Going Crazy

Author:Eric Idle

“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.”

People Thinking Feels Film Rooms Alive Stage Example Masters Like You Realms Just Being Temperature Hitchcock Sensational

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.”

Doe Film Certain Stage Producers

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.”

Stills Wanted Stars Stage

Author:Kirk Douglas

“In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].”

People Want Home Actors Stars Term Laughing Stage Mets Casts Los Angeles Telephones Coming Back Loathe Maggie

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.”

Firsts Said Actors Stage Offers First Time Hollywood

Author:Kirk Douglas

“There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.”

Men Self Eye Beautiful Life Is Spirit Stage Slave Inner Self Free Man

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

“As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.”

Years Humans Stills Country Enough Young Spirit Purpose Nations Wish Conditions Stage Position Evolution Noble Excellent Canada Devoted Other Countries Human Spirit Flexible Centennial

Author:Lester B. Pearson

“That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?”

People Way Needs Found Situation Stage Distance Links Retiring Reach Out Better Ways Precarious

Author:Victor Borge

“'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood”

People Way Facts Interest Study Stage Figures Development Speech Concepts Method Misunderstood Retention Figures Of Speech

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.”

Knows Stage Source Cancer Primaries Treatment Detection Primary Source

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.”

World Philosophy Stage Fool Observation Pregnant Bewildered

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

Believe Doe Self Action Strong Doubt Stage Weak Conviction Pity Uncomfortable Feathers Self Pity Mattresses

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!”

People Years Wanted Laughing Stage Sells Seven Seven Years

Author:David Lee Roth

“Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.”

Problem Process Stage Productions Lowest

Author:Andy Grove

“Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.”

Moments Water Audience Special Stage Bottles Special Moments Water Bottles

Author:Marilyn Manson

“In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.”

Whole Interest Class Struggle Stage Movement Development Various Working Class Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Stages Of Development

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.”

World Way Said Ends Enough Problem Past Form Nations Process Community Progress Stage Tomorrow Periods Solve Organized Continuing Sovereign Process Of Change

Author:Jean Monnet

“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.”

Moments Running Night Stage Fine Bed Nervous Every Night Mics

Author:Ringo Starr

Stage Quotes

Related topics

Stage Quotes