On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. Votes: 4
Oliver GoldsmithYou've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Votes: 4
Arthur AsheI found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. Votes: 2
Kenneth WilliamsYou cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Votes: 0
Frederick Salomon PerlsFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekIn the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe laugh count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Votes: 0
David EdwardYou worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage. Votes: 0
Deirdre O'KaneThe staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. Votes: 0
Estelle ParsonsNo country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... Votes: 0
Gertrude AthertonFilm is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical. Votes: 0
Christian McKayThe male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage Votes: 0
Valerie SolanasA unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm. Votes: 0
Mason JenningsWhen you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe. Votes: 0
Lawrence O'DonnellIf somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time. Votes: 0
Elaine StritchMy background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background. Votes: 0
Tommy WiseauDetect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible. Votes: 0
Andy GroveThe press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. Votes: 0
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonReggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage. Votes: 0
Ella HendersonI mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess. Votes: 0
Mary, Crown Princess of DenmarkI've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums. Votes: 0
Andy SerkisThe RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. Votes: 0
Sidney AltmanI got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. Votes: 0
David JohansenThe first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. Votes: 0
John Edensor LittlewoodThe live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage. Votes: 0
Allison JanneyGrowing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise. Votes: 0
Jacob ArtistI've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego. Votes: 0
Imelda StauntonThe part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. Votes: 0
Talcott ParsonsPicnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleI want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. Votes: 0
Rainn WilsonMusic for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism. Votes: 0
Tessanne ChinI thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. Votes: 0
Tori SpellingOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. Votes: 0
Janis JoplinMusic for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism. Votes: 0
Tessanne ChinYou can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear. Votes: 0
Johnny VegasMy act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. Votes: 0
Steven WrightThere is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage. Votes: 0
Anthony HopkinsWhen I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers. Votes: 0
Ethel WatersEvery stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age. Votes: 0
Decimius Magnus AusoniusI often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am. Votes: 0
Craig NichollsMy first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11. Votes: 0
Justin ChadwickMy first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. Votes: 0
Justin ChadwickI'm at that stage in my career, especially now where I go where I am wanted. Votes: 0
Robert EnglundI never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame? Votes: 0
Patti LaBelleI don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act. Votes: 0
Andy KindlerMy vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it. Votes: 0
Curtis ArmstrongI didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage. Votes: 0
Catherine Zeta-JonesI've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there. Votes: 0
Martina McBrideWhat I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. Votes: 0
Edward BondYou really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world. Votes: 0
Billy CrystalMy real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy. Votes: 0
Iggy AzaleaI always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time. Votes: 0
Conor MaynardOne must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovBut when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time. Votes: 0
David CopperfieldI was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then. Votes: 0
Michaela ConlinI never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave. Votes: 0
Jayne MeadowsYou don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. Votes: 0
Larry SpeakesThe public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage. Votes: 0
Maria CallasMaturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.
Claude Maxwell MacDonaldI take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.
Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasMovies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
Penelope GilliattAll noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
William Ellery ChanningIts just my goal to make other girls feel as strong as I feel when Im on that stage.
Hayley WilliamsWhen creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity
Pharrell WilliamsI have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
Anne McCaffreyI love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael JacksonNo one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
Paramahansa YoganandaIf I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.
Pedro MartinezI can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.
Theophilus LondonLife is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
Sir David Baird, 1st BaronetAll the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
William Shakespeare'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em
Zack de la RochaArt, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
Anton ChekhovRecording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
Bootsy CollinsIf reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
Russell HobanI can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Tennessee WilliamsIt's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.
Allen JohnsonPreemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
Charles KrauthammerIntellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.
Manny LaureanoWhen you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Robert SmithEach action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah BernhardtThere is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
Storm JamesonIf I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Antony TudorWhat I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
David CopperfieldIf I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.
Edward HerrmannMy life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
Eric ThomasThere is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellTo get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
James BluntMost of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
Marc MaronI was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
Michael StipeOf late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
Richard ArmourI go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.
Sonny SharrockEach stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
Terence McKennaThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
Al PacinoI consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.
Carrie UnderwoodI know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
Mel BrooksIf you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.
Morris LapidusI don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
Peter SteeleThe man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.
Stephen CraneIt's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.
Stuart Pearson WrightI am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
Alicia MachadoIt's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.
Dolly PartonAnyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
Elton JohnI did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.
Jack NicholsonI take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.
James YoungI'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
Louis C. K.The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.
Matthew LillardI have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
Parker J. PalmerWhat we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
Stephen MitchellIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AugustusFor aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.
Bill BurrI can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.
Conan O'BrienMost of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
Dave GrohlI did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Isabelle HuppertI don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].
Jack BarakatThere's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up
Jemaine ClementWhat is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Joyce CaryI don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
Kathleen MadiganI'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
Laurie MetcalfIf all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
Robert BrowningIf me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
Billie Joe ArmstrongYou get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.
Brian HensonIf all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
Charles L. GrantThe opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.
John LarroquetteI would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
Karl KrausI don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.
Michael GiraPeople do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.
Miley CyrusI just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.
Misty CopelandOne begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.
Moss HartI liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
Patti SmithI'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
Paul McCartneyAdolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
Sigmund Freud[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi GoldbergSometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
Adam RappDevelop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.
Brian TracyMaybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
Diana RiggAny performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
Mick JaggerI like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
Mikhail BaryshnikovNot since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.
Robin InceNot on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
Alexander SmithIn my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.
Carl De KeyzerThe stage, the show, the fans, that doesnât matter because Iâm always gonna fight my fight.
Cat ZinganoI'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.
Chanel ImanOccasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
Charlie DayThe only time that I am really truly happyâwhen I feel at my bestâis when I'm on the stage.
Etta JamesI will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.
Idina MenzelOn the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
Karl KrausThere's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
Mary McCormackThe germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiYou leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?
Nina AriandaSometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan FerryThe Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While Youâre Crying Is So Brave.
Demi LovatoAdolescence as the time when an individual "recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley HallI can't go out on stage and have glow sticks waved at me! That's not representative of anything!
Keith FlintMost human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.
Spike LeeThe stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar WildeYou feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
Chin-Ning ChuI used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
David CopperfieldI'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.
DoseoneI didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
Gary WrightMy parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
Haley ReinhartWhen you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
Ian MckellenWe Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
Manu GinobiliA humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria MontessoriA woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.
Mary Edwards WalkerThe stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
Mary Roberts RinehartThe lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd " putting it all together " magic in the making
Nina FlowersThe Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.
Sloane CrosleyI'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.
Tim RothNormally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
David CopperfieldI go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.
Doug StanhopeI like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.
George StraitI grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
Jeremy PivenSince I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
Josephine BakerI love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.
Matthew RhysWhen you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
Suzanne FarrellUsually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Wanda SykesIt keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
Bon ScottI want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist
Choi Soo-youngNow I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
Etta JamesAt the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
Herbert MarcusePhotography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.
Jeffrey KlugerI've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.
Louise JamesonMost actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
Martin FreemanA job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
Neil YoungNo one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.
Roger Meddows TaylorI've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
Tom StoppardAn 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!
Ashley TisdaleLive stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
Ben VereenYet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
Jeremy PivenI love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.
Mark McGrath