Stage Quotes

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Thomas Szasz

Children, Making, Sure

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
Louis C. K.

Why, Often, Sure

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
Louis C. K.

Good, Learned, Wind

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Time, Hopefully, Track

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life, Played, Poker

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
Eric Cantona

Football, Tough, Compared

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus

Boredom, Morality, Virtue

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.
Demi Lovato

Able, Point, Stand

I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.
Miley Cyrus

Love, Single, Together

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
Annie Lennox

Girl, Girly, Perceived

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
Tori Spelling

Parenting, Thought, Once

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
Michael Caine

Good, Acting, Easy

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
Angus Young

Past, Bands, Pimple

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk

Ambition, Mothers, Share

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
Buffalo Bill

State, Debut, February

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah Bernhardt

Thoughts, Action, Actor

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
Evel Knievel

Thought, Play, Guitar

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.
Simon Mainwaring

Try, Tell, Interested

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
Jenny McCarthy

Movies, Him, Before

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
Alan Alda

Time, Home, Old

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
Liam Neeson

Someone, Person, Prayer

Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
Rick Perry

Life, Three, Republican

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Life, Career, Biggest

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

Travel, Lost, Two

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.
John Malkovich

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
Pete Townshend

Off, Whatever, Until

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
Stephen Sondheim

Work, Opinion, Movie

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
John Mayer

Nothing, Mean, Down

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