Stage Quotes
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Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do something theatrical. I just don't like wasting opportunity - if you're going to do a photo session, if you're going to walk on stage, why not make it interesting?
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
Idina Menzel
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
Wale
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My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
Valerie June
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All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
Neil Peart Rush
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
Captain Beefheart
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
Larry Speakes
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
Orson Welles
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I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
William Hurt
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
Frances McDormand
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I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.
Jason Aldean
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
Vincent Cassel
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
Al Pacino
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My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
Lady Gaga
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
Adam Driver
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I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.
Ian Astbury The Cult
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
R. C. Sproul
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
Vicente Fox
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.
Michael Flatley