Stage Quotes

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

I lost my temper on stage.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

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

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.