“Get a stage tone, darling, an energy. Never go on stage without your motor running.”

“Believe it or not, sometimes when I go on stage, I still get butterflies.”

“…the energy exchange between us on stage and the audience was absolutely amazing.”

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

“I'll always go back to the stage.”

“There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.”

“But if you on stage with the DEA, as your hype man, don't get yourself locked up and blame the white man.”

“Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.”

“Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star act. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.”

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”