Stage Quotes - Page 5

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• Stage time, stage time, stage time.

  Darren LaCroix

  "Chelsea Peretti started her stand-up career by telling fart jokes" by Ariana Bacle, www.ew.com. December 18, 2014.

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• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Men, Bullets

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

  William Hogarth

  Compassion, Cartoon, Four

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• Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

  Ellen Terry

  Dream, Night, Quality

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

  Mark Burnett

  Television, Hours, Treats

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• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  Earl Browder

  Organization, Political, Development

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• I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Clothes, People, Sick

  "Melissa Etheridge's New Jingle Bell Rock". "On the Record" with Greta Van Sustreren, www.foxnews.com. December 18, 2008.

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• The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.

  Minzy

  Dream, Crazy, Fall

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• I definitely get stage fright.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Stage Fright, Fright

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• I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

  Dario Argento

  Moving, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. September 23, 2008.

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• Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Color, Perfect, Glaciers

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• I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage

  Benni McCarthy

  Moving, Careers, Clubs

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• Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  People, Cooking, Done

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• I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

  Celia Cruz

  Living On, Dies

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• I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

  Julio Iglesias

  Football, Real, Play

  "Julio Iglesias On His Champion Son Enrique, What Dolly Parton Taught Him, And The Enduring Passion". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 9, 2012.

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• No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Shy, Kind, Gentle

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• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Order, Singing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Horse, Real, Riding

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Hypocrite, Play

  "The Existence and Attributes of God".

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• If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Ifs

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• Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

  Grace Slick

  Purpose, Prancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Hair, Kind, Stakes

  "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

  Jay Michaelson

  Journey, Lasts

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.110, North Atlantic Books

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