Stage Quotes

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

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

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be.

People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.

All I can do when I'm on stage is do a show where when I come back into town they cannot possibly afford to miss the show because they remember how fun it was.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

If you're going to walk into a scene on a stage, you've gotta know what room you just left and what just happened.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.