I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.
I get to share the stage with some of the best.
I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I’m doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.
I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an attack of modesty.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is ‘beat the heat.’ It’s always July under the lights.
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
My presence and my voice on stage, it sends a clear message that you can do whatever you want in your life, break barriers, stigmas – be the new standard.
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.
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
I like leaping around on stage as long as it’s done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.
It’s nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we’re in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.
I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I’m on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom’s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage… I don’t know… there’s too much of it out there.
Live stage shows cannot be replaced.
There’s a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they’ve been wearing.
Every single time I step on stage or on screen, I am contributing to a culture in which there’s a dearth of people representing folks that look like me, or that have our context.
This is how I define grace: you’re on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That’s where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I’m prepared.
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of ‘being there,’ any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time – either I made a few new fans or something resonated.
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural – never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
When I’m on stage the savage in me is released. It’s like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I’d put on the wildest show.
I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don’t care how that affects my career, and I think it’s stupid that it would.
I’m ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.
I’ve done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.
When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it’s more of an actor’s medium. I think that film is more of a director’s medium. You can’t edit something out on stage. It’s there.
My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it’s invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn’t quite been in before.
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn’t realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist – never. We’ll be on stage in wheelchairs.
Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
It is very gratifying to see the music from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.
My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.
We really never know what we’re gonna play when we get on stage.
My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren’t stage parents in the slightest.
The thing where I thought I made it was when I paid my house off. It wasn’t actually a moment on stage – it was the first bit of financial security. It was the first time I looked at my house, and it was all paid off, and I thought, ‘Alright. Jokes paid for this.’
You’ve got to love the villain if you have to play him. You’ve got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you’re going to play the villain in a play on stage.
