Stage Quotes

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

The third stage is no thought.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.

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.

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.