Stage Quotes
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There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Cathy Rigby
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Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.
Tessanne Chin
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Get out on the stage of life.
Cliffie Stone
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I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
David Bowie
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Women are taking the main stage. They are center stage, and they're setting all these records and making history, and I want I be a part of that. I've worked so hard to be a part of that.
Nikki Bella
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones
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I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
Anne Hathaway
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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
Paul Lynde
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
Cate Blanchett
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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.
Michael Moriarty
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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?
Eve Best
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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.
Eric Hiscock
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If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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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.
Everett McGill
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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.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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.
Susan Boyle
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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.
Raheem DeVaughn
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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.
Michelle Ryan
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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.
Haylie Duff
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
Charles Durning
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That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.
Alice Cooper