Stage Quotes
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You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.
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You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.
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The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.
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It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.
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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
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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've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
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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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Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
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In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.
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Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.
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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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On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.
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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'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
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For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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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.
