Stage Quotes

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 average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

I have big, big stage fright.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

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

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

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 got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

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.

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!