Quotes About Stage

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

Is there anybody out there that will point to Hillary Clinton and say, "Gosh, my life is so much better because of her"? Why aren't they on stage?

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I've been performing my whole life.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

Broadway is really my life.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

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

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.