Stage Quotes

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

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

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.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.