Stage Quotes
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In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!
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I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
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If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
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Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!
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Get out on the stage of life.
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The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.
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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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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.
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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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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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You're just into it at that point and you're alive on stage and you get away with mischief and good stuff and you know, I don't know many adults who get to do that.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
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I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.
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The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.
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I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.
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Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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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.
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When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
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I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
