Stage Quotes
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
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I’ve got a lot of people depending on me. I found I couldn’t lay down on my job. I was a nervous wreck and ready of a sanitarium. Then I decided to go back to the stage. To see of there was any of the real Pauline Frederick left. To find out if I could act after all these years of waste. I went back to the stage two years ago. It has been my salvation.
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When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.
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I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.
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I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.
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There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.
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When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.
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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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There are some who say that eternal progression most broadly means progressing or advancing from one stage or form of life to another, forever, without end. That is exactly what it means.
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It's just a great joy to get back together on a stage 30 years later and be able to do it.
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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There were no direct ego confrontations, we all just took it to the stage and everybody brought their A- game.
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
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The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
