Quotes tagged ‘stage’

“On top of everything, we're giving them what they want: a stage and an audience.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Richard Schultz, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, imdb.com

“The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic. I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.”

— Jack Nicholson, filmcomment.com

“When I get up on stage and say what I gotta say, I know who I am, and right now y’all are pushing me to be who you want me to be and nobody’s asking what I wanna be.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now.”

— Lana Del Rey, open.spotify.com

“I was that little boy, that little baby boy was me! I once was a boy, but now I'm a man! I fought the Nightman, lived as Dayman, now I'm here to ask for your hand, so if you are too merry m'am will you marry me? Will you come on stage and join me in this thing called matrimony? Please say yes and do…”

— Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com

“It takes a lot of strength to speak in public about your goals. And their strength proves the transformation that can happen when a young woman, at a crucial stage of her life, is empowered with the simple message that her dreams do matter.”

— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”

— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org

“I live in a set, with the curtains of the stage closed with no audience - but who cares?”

— Karl Lagerfeld, vogue.co.uk