Stage Performance Quotes

• I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Surprising, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

  Stevie Nicks

  Fear, Keys, Wonder

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• There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Style, Different, Needs

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

  Amanda Schull

  Cameras, Lenses, Faces

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

  Lawrence Wright

  Might, Able, Way

  "Lawrence Wright Brings Mideast Conflict to Stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, Associated Press Writer, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 07, 2010.

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• I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  Gary Wright

  Stage, Performances, Technicians

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  Theatre, Video, Sitting

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• Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

  Agatha Christie

  Real, Perfection, Doe

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Cities, Personality

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

  Davy Jones

  Edinburgh, Firsts, 1960s

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• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  Naturi Naughton

  Play, Wings, People

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• [On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Emotion, Performances, Ran

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