Stage Quotes

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

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 love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

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?

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.