Stage Quotes - Page 19

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Even though I could sing, I didn't really mix anything and I wasn't really into rock. But after my experience of being around what it's like live and on-stage, it was just crazy. And when you grow in music, things just change.

I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Is there anybody out there that will point to Hillary Clinton and say, "Gosh, my life is so much better because of her"? Why aren't they on stage?

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.