Stage Quotes

“They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.”
― Noel Streatfeild, Theater Shoes

“Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.”
― Debasish Mridha

“You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.'

'Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.'

'Or an execution,' Horace said.”
― John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom

“God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.”
― Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart

“--and yet, whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff, as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

“William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?”
― Jake Vander Ark, The Brandywine Prophet

“Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story?”
― Chirag Tulsiani

“(Reed looks out over the audience from the stage)

"Some of them don't even move, they stand riveted in a kind of reverence as they endure the jostling madness.
They see you.
They hear you.
I never knew there could be any other reason to keep on breathing.
Ever.”
― Paula Coots, Another Rock Star

“A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“CURTAIN CALL

The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play”
― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales

“I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have a perfect childhood? A perfect school life? I was happy once. But I was young. The older you get, the more you remember. The younger you are, the more you forget.”
― Haresh Sharma, Those Who Can’t, Teach