All Quotes

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
‐‐ Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
‐‐ Janis Joplin

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.
‐‐ Roger Bart

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
‐‐ Adrian Edmondson

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.
‐‐ Cindy Busby

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
‐‐ Florence Welch

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.
‐‐ James Corden

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.
‐‐ Tom Holland

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
‐‐ Ben Hardy

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?
‐‐ Guy Pearce

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.
‐‐ Niels Arden Oplev

On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
‐‐ Marc Forster

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.
‐‐ Ze Frank

On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'
‐‐ Sean Paul

On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.
‐‐ Lesley Gore

On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

On Sunday night, my husband makes a five-course family dinner.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

On Sundays, I like to plan how I want to exit the week and what are the key things I need to get done that week. I list them, and then I do check-ins on them each morning.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich

On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.
‐‐ David Gregory

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

On 'Supernatural,' you go to a location and another location, and every week they do amazing things up there. You have to kind of hit the ground running and really start to look to the core of the story you're trying to tell.
‐‐ Ben Edlund

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
‐‐ Lana Parrilla

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
‐‐ Bob Barr

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'
‐‐ Bess Myerson

On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.
‐‐ James Burrows

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.
‐‐ Paul Winchell

On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me because Olympic medals represent all of the hard work and sacrifices made by the athletes as well as the people who helped them reach the top of their sports.
‐‐ Hannah Kearney

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
‐‐ Kirsten Vangsness

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
‐‐ George Pataki

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
‐‐ Bobby Ghosh

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
‐‐ John James Audubon

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
‐‐ Orson Pratt