Stage Quotes

• The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Energy
  • Audience
  • Stage

• I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

  

  Carrot Top
  • People
  • Home
  • Next

• If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Directors

• 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

• By nature, I’m rather passive so it’s important for me to appear confident on stage. I was very nervous.

  

  Park Ji-young After School
  • Nature
  • Confident
  • Passive

• I think on stage theres a side of me that comes out thats very fierce and confident.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Stage
  • Sides
  • Fierce

• 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

• The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Stage
  • Communist
  • Genocide

• 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

• On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Enjoy
  • Stories

• I don't know what young people want to hear anymore. The first person who comes up and asks me for Bon Jovi risks a ritual disembowelling on stage... and that's a promise.

  

  John Peel
  • Stage
  • Hear
  • Risks

• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Fountain

• There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

  

  Richard Jenkins
  • Walking
  • Stage
  • Hollywood

• If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Stage

• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Exception

• I love to go on stage and sing.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stage

• Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Being
  • Stage
  • Physical

• You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Stage
  • Dialogue
  • Amount

• 'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Stage
  • Reach
  • Performers

• If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Stage

• The new owner will be involved at every stage. Of course, if changes are made at the new owner's request and they add to the costs, it would be the new owner's responsibility.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Responsibility
  • Changes
  • Costs

• I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Art
  • Stage
  • Theater

• The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Acting
  • Camera
  • Trick

• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Government
  • Dependent
  • Bondage

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