Quotes About Stage

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Your life is a stage and you are the poet so pour your heart out, let them listen and be heard. Let the real you shine.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Remedies and Solutions are different; Remedies are the measurement or ways for solving the problem. Solutions are solving the problems, without any query in later stage. Solutions can be remedy, but remedy cannot.

the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life.

while the scene-changing is going on behind it, actors present a divertissement.

Berma in Andromaque, in Les Caprices de Marianne, in Phèdre, was one of

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.