Best 650 quotes in «stage quotes» category

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

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

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.