Stage Quotes

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

Its just my goal to make other girls feel as strong as I feel when Im on that stage.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

I love to go on stage and sing.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

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.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.