Best Stage Quotes

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I’m kind of an introvert, so I really do have to get over some anxiety to get on stage and connect with an audience. Once I do, it’s amazing, but it is a bit of a struggle.

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.

Being more mature now, I’ve managed to make peace with my past, as it’s making peace with me. Certainly there’s a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don’t preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development… the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

I’m totally at home on the stage. That’s where I live. That’s where I was born. That’s where I’m safe.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it’s just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

When I’m on stage I feel at home

There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I’d have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I’d be taking out ads.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

Every institution goes through three stages – utility, privilege, and abuse.

I don’t like going on stage. Stages mean nervous for me.

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music.

The professor, instead of being the sage on the stage, functions as a guide on the side.

Our perception of songs that we’ve written… the meaning changes from day to day… to whatever stage we’re at in our life and careers.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it’s hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I’m modulated now.

I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.

Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that it would make me feel good about myself

Everyone has to call ‘time’ at some stage.

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn’t really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It’s the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

The stage is home, and there’s no place like it.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.