Quotes About Stage

When I'm on stage I feel at home

I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

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.

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

My home has always been show business.

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.

He'd reached that perilous stage of being drunk enough to think himself a good dancer… but was dangerously close in tipping over to the point where he'd act like an arse

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.