Stage Quotes - Page 37

• Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Careers, Firsts

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• Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

  Mick Jagger

  Steps, Performers, Persons

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Kansas, Challenges

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  America, Self, Leader

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• I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Writing, Years

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?

  David Titley

  Thinking, Actors, May

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Ideas, People, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing before I go on to the next joke. On TV, if I stand there for a minute while they laugh, I look like an idiot who can't remember the next joke.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Laughing, Crowds, Next

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik Is Eager To Offend You". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.buzzfeed.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

  Misty Copeland

  Artist, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

  Doc Brown

  Loneliness, Roles, Elements

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.

  Frank Iero

  Art, Lasts, Like You

  Interview with Molly Louise Hudelson, circlesandsoundwaves.com. September 6, 2014.

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• My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Falling In Love, People, Important

  Source: saseye.com

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• I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Fun, Years

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh.

  Brian Regan

  Mean, Laughing, Comedian

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

  Chris Tucker

  Acting, Stuff, Paint

  Interview with Matt Rodriguez, shakefire.com.

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• A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

  Jeff Dunham

  Stuff, Shows, Ads

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I never sing under the shower, I keep it for the stage.

  Jared Leto

  Showers

  Source: jaredlover.tumblr.com

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• I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.

  Michael Bay

  Real, Thinking, Play

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Running, Horse, Book

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “CHILDREN’S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: 11 Novels & 120+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables & Poems for Children (Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Series & The Arabian Nights): New Chronicles of Rebecca, A Summer in a Cañon, Polly Oliver's Problem, The Birds' Christmas Carol, The Romance of a Christmas Card, Timothy's Quest, The Fairy Ring, Golden Numbers and many more”, p.14, e-artnow

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• [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Four, Honey

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• ... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Real, Doors, People

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• If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dust, Wind, Wyoming

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Life And Love, Drama, Book

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.9, Essential Library

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• I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Beautiful, Caring, Dawn

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