The Stage Quotes

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas. — Julius Genachowski

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. — Thomas Heywood

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage. — Rick Wakeman

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage. — Jeff Britting

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. — Alexander Hamilton

I'm always up for going back to the stage. — Taye Diggs

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage. — Douglas Leone

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

I love the stage. — Anthony Quinn

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside. — Danielle De Niese

I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton. — Carly Fiorina

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block. — Will Chase

The stage is near and dear to me. — Bela Lugosi

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world. — Paul Lynde

We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage. — Rachel Tucker

The goal is to divide my time between stage and film. — Patricia Birch

I was only twenty-five, much to young to die. Probably about the right age to become a complete hypochondriac, however. — Kylie Scott

'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage. — Chris Squire

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment. — Ruthie Henshall

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. — Arthur Smith

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right. — Frank Rich

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. — Matt Nathanson

Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production. — Jared Diamond

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks. — Laverne Cox

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine. — Joshua Bell

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me — Arthur Ashe

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take. — Fiona Shaw

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era. — Abdullah Ocalan

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free. — Mika.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be. — Tessanne Chin

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. — Bruce Springsteen

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can. — Angela Lansbury

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! — Greg Curtis

The stage is my first love. — Anthony Mackie

I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am. — Craig Nicholls

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. — Ellen Terry

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss. — Cat Stevens

My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart. — Damien Chazelle

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body. — Antony Tudor

The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind. — Vironika Tugaleva

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed. — William Katt

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. — G. Stanley Hall

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. — Henry David Thoreau

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. — Dorothy Parker

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. — Arsenio Hall

It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy. — Assegid Habtewold

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll. — Grace Slick

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage. — Andy Williams

Do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage — Brian De Palma

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set. — Hugh Jackman

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage. — Laura Mvula

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid. — Cilla Black

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am ... a dry sense of humor. — Bob Newhart

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. — Henry David Thoreau

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise. — Jason McCoy

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds. — Jim Rash

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage. — Ritchie Blackmore

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict. — Billy Graham

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. — Raymond E. Feist

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. — Haley Reinhart

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York. — Chris Eigeman

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. — Liam Gallagher

SHINee world is strength for me. Because I get strength when I get cheers on the stage. — Onew

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world. — David Gest

If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]! — Dada Bhagwan

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life, — Mark Rylance

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight — Joshua Teya

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. — Maryln Schwartz

What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page. — Fierce Dolan

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity — Pharrell Williams

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit. — Gallagher

Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like — Sylvia Becker-Hill

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences. — Jane Rosenthal

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows

Every relationship reaches a stage where it reinvents itself or plays out. — Jameson Currier

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. — Joe DiMaggio

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage — Neil Peart

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform. — Seth

Leave the stage before the stage leaves you. — Tamara Karsavina

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage.
I don't know what I would have done without that positive boost. — Chris Matthews

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice. — Kevin Hart

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers. — Vijay Singh

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter. — Zac Efron

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever. — Stirling Moss

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. — Fran Lebowitz

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg. — Corey Reynolds