Stage Quotes - Page 16

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

  Tom DeLonge

  Fire, People, Band

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

  Joyce DeWitt

  Home

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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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• When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

  Jon Fishman

  Fun, Real, Men

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• I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hockey, Jeans, Buttons

  "Sky Ferreira Shares Her Coachella Packing Essentials". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 9, 2013.

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• The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

  Terence Fisher

  Reflection, Glasses, Flames

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• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  Ari Graynor

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

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

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• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

  Benny Goodman

  People, Band, Thrill

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• And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

  Billy Gardell

  Thinking, Laughing, Guy

  "The Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I never felt I left the stage.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Felt, Left

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• I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

  Joan Allen

  Girl, Long, Perfect

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

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• I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

  Kim Alexis

  Thinking, Jumping, People

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• Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

  Lily Allen

  Girl, Wish, Band

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

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• I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

  Sasha Alexander

  Character, Stories, Television

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• Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

  Wes Anderson

  Interesting, Mind, Stories

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

  Robert Englund

  Towns, Our Town, Direct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

  Tim McGraw

  Kings, Tennessee, Calling

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