Stage Quotes

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

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.