Stage Quotes - Page 10

• I'm not a big raised stage fan.

  Tom Bergeron

  Fans, Bigs, Raised

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• I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Thinking, Care, Trouble

  "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Character, Building

  "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.

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• My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

  Michael Cerveris

  Father, Kids, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

  Allen Carr

  Attitude, Goes On, Firsts

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• I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mother, Husband, Gun

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• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  Jack Antonoff

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

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

  Nina Arianda

  Air

  "The Natural" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

  Christina Applegate

  Mother, Children, Struggle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Curtis Armstrong

  Vision, Stage Actors, Actors

  "'80s actor known as Booger still busy in the biz" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2002.

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

  Pauline Collins

  Teacher, Years, Acting

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

  Jimmy Carr

  Home, Weekend, Eight

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• I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

  Neko Case

  Nervous, Feels, Fearful

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• I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

  Rodney Carrington

  Jobs, Beer, Goes On

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• I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Different, Moments

  "I don't like being told what to do", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Song, Artist, People

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• I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Wish, Anecdotes

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

  Rob Delaney

  Husband, Dad, Believe

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• With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

  Rob Delaney

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

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• If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

  Brad Dourif

  Artist, Two, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

  Brad Dourif

  Rehearsal, Film, Performing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

  Charles Durning

  Ifs

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