Stage Quotes - Page 15

• I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Shooting

  "Kathryn Bigelow: back in the danger zone" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

  Kelly Brook

  Kids, Theatre, Pantomime

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.

  Kristen Bell

  Baby, Heart, Water

  "Mars Star Believes in Girls Power". Interview with Ileane Rudolph, www.tvguide.com. August 15, 2006.

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• If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Play, Wells, Studios

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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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• There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

  Anne Carson

  Want, Facts, Different

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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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• 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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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Play

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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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• Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

  Nina Arianda

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

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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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• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

  Dan Auerbach

  Keys, Rocks, Black

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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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• The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

  2 Chainz

  Moving, Independent, Thinking

  "2 Chainz looks to build on revived career with CD". Interview with Jonathan Landrum, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 15, 2012.

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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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• What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

  John Cale

  Giving, Use, Texture

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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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• Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

  Simon Callow

  Weekend, Afternoon, Evening

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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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• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Thinking, People, Example

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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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• But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

  Rob Delaney

  Mountain, Body, Bottom

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

  Tom DeLonge

  Fire, People, Band

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