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.

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.