Quotes with stage

Quotes 161 till 180 of 197.

  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Billy Eckstine Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Antonin Artaud Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bette Davis Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Cary Grant We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
    Cosmography (1992)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert We try to put on the same show regardless of what stage or platform we're on.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition.
    Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Adolph Green We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Barry Humphries What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • B. B. King When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Engvall When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carmine Coppola When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
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