Stage Quotes
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Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
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In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
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When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.
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Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.
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I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.
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I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
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I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
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When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.
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Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
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From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.
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If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
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Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.
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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
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For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.
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There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
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I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
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The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
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It's like Hollywood. The stage is set. All you're going to see out there is a bunch of cameras flashing, a lot of fans sitting back relaxing and waiting to see who the best team is going to be.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
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One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
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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.
