Stage Quotes - Page 17

• As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

  Don McLean

  Art, Angel, Media

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• Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

  Bob Seger

  Art, Stars, Media

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• In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

  Rodney Crowell

  Art, Children, Media

  Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Capes, Cages

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Business, Years, Knowing

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• Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

  David Coverdale

  Rocks, Voice, Band

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• The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

  David Coverdale

  Being Human, Demigods, Feels

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• I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

  Jeffrey Combs

  Ideas, Actors, Want

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• Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

  Monique Coleman

  Girl, Stars, Fun

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• When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

  Ray Davies

  Cutting, Keys, Records

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• I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

  Roger Daltrey

  Night, Sweat, Salt

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• Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Stars, Personality

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• Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

  Manny Farber

  Guy, Towns, Different

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.91, Library of America

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• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  Paloma Faith

  Running, Hate, Rain

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• My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

  Renee Fleming

  Mother, Brother, Littles

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• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  Calvin Harris

  Looks, Matter, Invaders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Drama, Men, Intelligent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

  Katherine Helmond

  Play, Directors, Roles

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• People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Nice, Rap, Talking

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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• Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.

  Lianne La Havas

  Color, Shapes, Remember

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• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Theatre, Chekhov

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• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

  Celia Imrie

  Acting, Goes On, Shows

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• I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

  Ashthon Jones

  Song, Writing, Want

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• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  People, Dancing, Sick

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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