Stage Quotes - Page 4

• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  Elia Kazan

  Essence, Movement, Action

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• On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Spirit, Concrete

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.17

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• Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Somewhere Else, Preparation, Different

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5863, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

  Hunter Hayes

  Stories, Nervous, Whole

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• The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

  Hunter Hayes

  Years, Two, Comfort

  "Music and Style: Hunter Hayes". www.esquire.com. May 2013.

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• It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

  Paulo Coelho

  Joy, Risk, Needs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 11, 2014

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• Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

  Peter Brook

  Real, Oddities, Hands

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• I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Giving, Important

  www.wired.com.

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• Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.

  Jimmy Page

  Girl, Clothes, Ice

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• Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

  Tim Cook

  Smartphones, Revolution, Stills

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• No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Strong, Monsters, Negative

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• Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

  Mario Cantone

  Barbie

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• I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
  (i) this is worthless nonsense;
  (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
  (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
  (iv) I always said so.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Acceptance, Views, Interesting

  Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

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• At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Taken, Limits

  Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.29, Trafalgar Square Books

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Drama, Selfish, Add

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• Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

  Mick Napier

  Doors, Sneak In, Judging

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• What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself. But that's rarely the case. The elements of a subject that speak to us are often scattered and can't be captured in one photo; we don't have the right to force them together, and to stage them would be cheating...which brings us to the need for photojournalism.

  Henri

  Cheating, Unique, Together

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• Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

  Ryan Lochte

  Moving, Focus, Training

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• Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

  Choi Soo-young

  Artist, Idols, Want

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• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  Florence Welch

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  Florence Welch

  People, Judgement, Fronts

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

  Florence Welch

  People, Moments, Performances

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