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

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my...

The crossover wasn’t happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there’s just a lot of crossover.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

I’ve got to be comfortable when I’m on stage.

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won’t actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on...

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of ‘Stagefright Sympathy Sickness’.

No matter how you were 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 put on that smile.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

I never stop working when I’m on stage, and that’s my fitness.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That’s a dream of mine. There’s nothing like live theater, and I think it’s so important for me to be able to be on stage with...

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn’t add 10 pounds.

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn’t know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

if somebody doesn’t have any talent, get off the stage! you’re wasting my time.

The stage calls my name.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It’s human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

To be honest, I don’t know really what I do on stage.

As soon as you get off stage, that’s the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I’ve reached a stage where I think, ‘I’ve got red curly hair, and it’s actually really great.’

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.

Put me on stage and I’m happy.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

If you read Shakespeare’s stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

It’s the only time that I’m ever nervous on stage, is when we’re doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can’t fix it.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

Oh, come on! Nobody’s favorite color is BROWN!

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it’s invaluable for an actor. What you will...

Over the years, I’ve loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

To begin with, I don’t have any stage fright.

I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have...

I’m sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more...

Some of the stage outfits I’ve got are ridiculous. I’ll lay out clothes to pack, and it’ll look like Polly Pocket clothing – because it’s all stretchy, it’s tiny. I don’t need a case when...

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn’t make me any more graceful – they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

I love to play. When I’m off, I feel a little lost – like, shouldn’t I be on stage somewhere?

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a...