Stage Quotes

• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, New York, Stars

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• There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Thinking, Play

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• When I'm on stage I feel at home

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Home, Feels

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• From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

  George Peppard

  Views, Joy, Point Of View

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• I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

  Colleen Atwood

  Inspiration, Chicago, Use

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• Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

  Michael Jackson

  Light, Over You, Magic

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 11, 2013

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• I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

  Mat Kearney

  Artist, Creating, Moments

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

  Jake Miller

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

  Clint Eastwood

  Learning Something New, Each Day, Life Is

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• You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.

  Vladimir Putin

  Impact, Knows

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• All the world's a stage.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Literature, Clown

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• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Acting, Natural

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 101 (on Garrick)

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• When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, People, Dancing

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• The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

  Plato

  Important, Enterprise

  Republic, bk.2, 377b (translated by RWaterfield,1993).

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• Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

  Misty Copeland

  Black And White, Dancer, Becoming

  Source: collider.com

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• Full of wise saws and modern instances.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Saws, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Play, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

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• Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Play, Roles

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• The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

  Harold Clurman

  Beautiful, Girl, Legs

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• It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us.

  Gerard Way

  Hurt, Hate, Stopping

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