Quotes About Stage

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

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.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.