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

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...

I’d never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, ‘You’re on stage tonight.’

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

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 learn about yourself is huge.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And...

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you’re on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

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.

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

The thing that’s characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

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...

You’ll like it less when you hear what they’ve been building. It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.”Like a stage?’ Erak suggested. ‘Maybe they’re going to put on a play.”Or an execution,’ Horace said.

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

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

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

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn’t need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you’ve had it, you’re on the...

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you’re on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

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

The stage calls my name.

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

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

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.

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

Let the ovation be louder when you leave the stage than it was when you climbed it

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?

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.

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

I’m most at home on the stage.

I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

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 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.

I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.

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

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World’s a Stage.)”[Motto of William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King’s Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

Hamlet, that’s the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

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

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.

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage… I don’t know… there’s too much of it out there.

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

‘Johnny’ was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

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

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.

There’s no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.

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.