Stage Quotes

I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

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.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

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

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

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

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

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.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

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

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.