Stage Quotes - Page 12

• Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

  Tom DeLonge

  Fire, People, Band

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• Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

  Andy Dick

  Christian, People, Goes On

  "Andy Dick Finds God the Hard Way". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. May, 2003.

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• Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

  Anthony Daniels

  Hands, Years, Orchestra

  "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.

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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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• The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Bourgeoisie, World, Might

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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

  Charles Durning

  Ifs

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• Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

  Charles Durning

  Wall, Night, Acting

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

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• I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

  Charles Durning

  Play, Listening, Acting

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

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• What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

  Charles S. Dutton

  August, Essence, Actors

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• I do belong on stage.

  Chris Daughtry

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• I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

  Clea DuVall

  Quiet

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• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Special, Things Change

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• I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Home

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• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  Taye Diggs

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

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• You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

  Warwick Davis

  Ideas, Acting, Cameras

  "Warwick Davis Talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, And His Desire To "Just Keep Working"". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16.

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• Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

  Billy Eckstine

  Kids, People, Records

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Theatre, Terrible

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• Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

  Carmen Electra

  Dance, Children, Love Is

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• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Character, Want, Boundaries

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Home, Night, Thinking

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• With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

  John Entwistle

  Bass, Vibrations, Ends

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