It’s very important the toilet be beautiful, that this stage is reflected. If a child suffers trauma, then he will have adult neuroses.

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.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at – the excellences of our stage performance.

It’s always interesting – how do you actually convey thought through song? We’re used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a...

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that’s when I realized that this had a huge market.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper – not the bang that extremists long for.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

A video taped stage performance is just – you know, it’s never gonna be the same as it is if you’re sitting there live in the theatre.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

It’s very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher’s smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!

My mother said I should have a ‘change of scenery.’ The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

I wouldn’t know any newer bands. We’re past the pimple stage.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

We really never know what we’re gonna play when we get on stage.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I’m a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

I’m a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon’s bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

My personality just steps away, and I’m in direct connection when I’m on stage.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

You can’t act being a boxer. It’s like being on stage.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

I’m most at home on the stage.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Kids don’t see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves...

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

I’ll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn’t get tired, and we musn’t get tired too.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we’re not ashamed to. We’re not shoe gazers.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every ‘Mindfreak’ you see, I can do live.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can’t do a retake.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

My mum’s always on at me to have children and blames ‘that stupid stage thing you do’ for me not already having a family.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

My background is on the stage, so when I’d write movies, they’d be a lot like plays.

William looked up… through his tears… past the catwalk and lights… past the sky… through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, ‘Why?

If I were a magician, I’d hand out broken compasses. It’s all about misdirection.

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play