Stage Quotes

My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

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.