Stage Quotes

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

I never felt I left the stage.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I feel energized walking off stage.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

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

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

The stage is my first love.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

You have to open up on stage.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I love the stage.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

I love to go on stage and sing.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.