Stage Quotes

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.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

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.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

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.