Stage Quotes

I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

There are many stages of grief.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

The stage calls my name.

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

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 got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it's always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve in a lot of ways and I'm excited to put that to use on stage.

Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].