"Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did."
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"If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life."
"In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!"
"My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage."
"Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written."
"If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show."
"Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life."
"My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find."
"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
"I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before."
"You have to open up on stage."
"The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate."
"I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did."
"And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary."
"A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while."
"I don't stage my own publicity."
"On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality."
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
"Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others."
"I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures."