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...

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way...

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...

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don’t feel like I can wing it. So I write...

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

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

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.

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

I’m actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I’m on the stage I’m like, ‘okay, we’re gonna rock this baby.’

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers’ ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host...

Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience...

When I’m up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

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...

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.