Stage Quotes - Page 18

• My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

  Davy Jones

  Stage Performance, Edinburgh, Firsts

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• When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

  Keith Jarrett

  Sound, Strange, Streets

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• Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

  Orlando Jones

  Our Generation, Next Steps, Different

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• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Tom Jones

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

  Carson Kressley

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

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• The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

  Joe Morton

  Character, Mean, Eight

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• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  Randy Newman

  Nice, Band, Wells

  "My Life Is Good". Interview with Mike Pagogna, May 30, 2011.

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• You have to open up on stage.

  Karen O

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

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• It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

  Miranda Otto

  Self, Careers, People

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• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Richard Owen

  Men, Study, Psychological

  "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 521, 1860.

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• A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

  Lauren Potter

  Long, People, Attention

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Distance, Degrees

  Song: Day of The Locusts, Album: New Morning, 1970

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• The stage is near and dear to me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Dear

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• I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

  Christian Louboutin

  Girl, Fashion, Children

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• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Gender, Barriers

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• I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

  Clarke Peters

  Stage Actors, Actors, Performances

  "Is this it?". Interview with Adrian Lobb, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

  Christopher Plummer

  Sweet, Father, Talking

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• I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

  Jeremy Piven

  Chicago, Stage Actors, Actors

  "Actor Jeremy Piven". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 2, 2013.

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• When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

  Jeremy Piven

  Growing Up, Growing

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  Oliver Platt

  New York, Kids, Stage Actors

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

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• I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

  Haley Reinhart

  Believe, Vices, Sound

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• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  Haley Reinhart

  Passion, Kids, Done

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• Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

  Johnny Ramone

  Blow, Play, Light

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.50, Abrams

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