When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

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.

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn’t it?” He didn’t wait for her confirmation. “Yes. Well. Tell me…that bit just now…was that from Dante’s Inferno?”Uh…no,” Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?”I’m in for it.Are you sure?”...

‘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.

All the world’s a stage.

I didn’t even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have...

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

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it’s the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television...

That’s the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

Well, as you know, I’m really only happy when I’m on stage.

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.

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

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

I’m intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It’s terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I’m so terrified.

If you can sell that you’re the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you’re a starship captain or a time...

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

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

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 don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing. More than anything I love...

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

You’ve got to love the villain if you have to play him. You’ve got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you’re going to play the villain in a play on...

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...

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

So you don’t have to take us too seriously; I mean, we’re already intimidating enough on stage.

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

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor’s place because actors, it belongs to you.

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.’

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.]

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...

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...

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...

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.