Stage Quotes - Page 15

• Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Numbers, Lucky, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Stars, Personality

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• Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

  Manny Farber

  Guy, Towns, Different

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.91, Library of America

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• That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

  Maureen Forrester

  Giving, Clubs, Littles

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• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  Paloma Faith

  Running, Hate, Rain

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• My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

  Renee Fleming

  Mother, Brother, Littles

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• Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

  Peter Gallagher

  Firsts, Moments, First Time

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• Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

  Retief Goosen

  Brother, Dad, Golf

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• First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Firsts, Moments, Pleasure

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• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  Victor Garber

  Missing, Feels, Comfortable

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

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  Calvin Harris

  Looks, Matter, Invaders

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

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• I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Drama, Men, Intelligent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  John Michael Higgins

  Army, Navy, Stage Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

  Katherine Helmond

  Play, Directors, Roles

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• People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Nice, Rap, Talking

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• China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, Challenges

  Press Conference with President Obama and President Hu of the People's Republic of China, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 19, 2011.

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• Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Attitude, Female, Body

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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• Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.

  Lianne La Havas

  Color, Shapes, Remember

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• I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

  Ryan Hall

  New York, Racing, Bigs

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• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Theatre, Chekhov

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• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

  Celia Imrie

  Acting, Goes On, Shows

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• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

  Celia Imrie

  Drama, School, Connections

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• If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Crazy, Careers, Long

  "Enrique Iglesias Steams Things Up in ‘Finally Found You’" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2012.

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