Stage Quotes

• A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

  

  Cass Canfield
  • Should
  • Interest
  • Subjects

• 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.

  

  Emily Mann
  • Play
  • Theater
  • Ghosts

• 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.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Persons
  • Land
  • Block

• If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Play
  • Stage
  • Wells

• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Band
  • Dancer
  • Beyonce

• I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Comfortable

• There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Power
  • Communicate
  • Singer

• As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  

  William James
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Wise

• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  

  Eric Hiscock
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Judging

• If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Person
  • Stage
  • Racial comment

• For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Stage
  • Laugh

• The stage on which you perform in film and TV is much smaller. Moving your eyes across the frame is equivalent to crossing from stage right to stage left in a big Broadway house. Coming from a theatrical background and temperament, this is something I am still learning. However, I think ultimately your responsibilities to the character and the overall story are the same in both mediums, so my approach felt very similar.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Film
  • TV
  • Broadway house

• When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Want
  • Said
  • Labor

• We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • History
  • Society
  • Stage

• This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Stage
  • Principles
  • Hydrogen

• The stage, the show, the fans, that doesn’t matter because I’m always gonna fight my fight.

  

  Cat Zingano
  • Fighting
  • Matter
  • Fans

• I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Stage
  • Perform
  • My Soul

• It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Stage

• I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Light
  • Stage
  • Amplification

• Honestly, we get our energy from our fans. When we are on stage, whatever they are feeling, we also get the same feeling.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Energy
  • Fans
  • Stage

• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Acting
  • Shows
  • Stage

• You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Character
  • Death
  • Script

• 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.

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Admired

• Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Moments
  • Ideas
  • Dimensions

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