I’ve had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I’ve had jokes stolen from me in the club when I’m next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I’ll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that’s when I decided to become a music artist.

The stage and screen are canvases, and each role is a stroke in the painting of a narrative

We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.

If you don’t trust everybody on stage with you, then you’re in trouble

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I’m imitating the mentally ill.

I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.

I don’t need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on

I think I play tennis for, to against a big legend, big court, short time. That’s what I train for. That’s why every day I wake up and I wish I could play those matches, you know. It’s like, for me it’s the best thing can happen is to play against that guy on that stage, you know.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage

Once I’m on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away

The diamond is a stage, and every player is an actor in the grand drama of baseball.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage

I can’t wait until I touch the stage, I’m going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere

I’m always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that’s off stage. People know when it’s fake.

Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one’s life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

Jimi Hendrix is very important. He’s my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star

I’m so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? ‘Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.’ I think of that. No big deal. I’ve reached a stage in my life where I am content.

when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn’t feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

You can’t cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it’s late stage.

You can’t go on stage and live – it’s false all the way. I can’t stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it’s not normal!

I kind of miss that “becoming” stage, as most times you really don’t know what’s around the corner. Now, of course, I’ve kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don’t know what the voice is saying, or even what language it’s in.

I don’t live for the stage. I don’t live for an audience.

I want to say it to so many people, ‘why you have to be so serious?’ And I also want people to think ‘this kid has really gone crazy’ when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

To impose on others is hypocrisy; while to impose on oneself is a stage beyond hypocrisy.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquaintance, then a mistress, and after that a friend.

Stage is really hard work. You’ve got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I like to close my eyes on the stage because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

I’m thankful for every opportunity that comes my way.

Every single time I entered the stage and looked at the lights and listened to the fans, it is something which is a unique experience for me.