Stage Quotes - Page 25

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

  George Steiner

  Western Culture, Three, Consciousness

  "In Bluebeard's Castle". Book by George Steiner, 1971.

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• Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

  John Kapelos

  Acting, Cameras, Flight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anytime you walk onto a stage or something where there's lots of people staring at you, you need to have something inspiring inside your head. Bolstering.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  People, Needs, Staring

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you get introduced you have to say "Hey,how ya doin'? How are ya?" I couldn't do it. It was false.

  Larry David

  Hey, Goes On, Requirements

  "Who is Larry David?". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.

  Portia de Rossi

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and Director David Fincher THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

  Roseanne Barr

  Drug, Goes On, Horrible

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Pits, Remember, Punk

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

  Michael Richards

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Jenna Bush

  Character, Talking, Creative

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• Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Missing, Diploma, Accepting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fall, Energy, Needs

  "Bob Odenkirk on the Final Days of Breaking Bad". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

  Michael Jackson

  Stage Performance, People, Surprising

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Creative, Important

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.72, Penguin

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• Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

  Robert Graves

  Home, Fighting, Men

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

  Natasha Leggero

  Rapper, Jail Time, Done

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 1, 2015.

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• When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.

  Jane Alexander

  Art, Motivation, Children

  Jane Alexander (2007). “Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics”, p.322, Da Capo Press

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Dream, Children, Princess

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• If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Research, Losing, Bases

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• Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Men, Land

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.194, Penguin

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• What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.

  Eli Wallach

  Art, Needs, Calendars

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• A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Ideas, Creative, Directors

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