All Quotes

Stage fright is my worst problem.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
‐‐ Katherine Moennig

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
‐‐ Shari Sebbens

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
‐‐ Kelly Masterson

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
‐‐ Julie Walters

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.
‐‐ Lesley Manville

Stage performing is a dying art form.
‐‐ Ronnie Spector

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
‐‐ Sasha Alexander

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
‐‐ Samuel West

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Stand a little less between me and the sun.
‐‐ Diogenes

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.
‐‐ Tommy Caldwell

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
‐‐ Adam Savage

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
‐‐ Maggie Kuhn

'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
‐‐ Scoot McNairy

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
‐‐ Tammy Wynette

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.
‐‐ Cory Booker

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.
‐‐ Richie Sambora

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.
‐‐ David Hewson

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
‐‐ Garth Brooks

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
‐‐ Russell Peters

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
‐‐ LL Cool J

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
‐‐ Tom Selleck

Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
‐‐ Eric Bana

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
‐‐ J. D. Souther

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
‐‐ Denis Leary

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
‐‐ Dave Foley

Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.
‐‐ Vir Das

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari