Stage Quotes - Page 20

• The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

  Rebecca Wells

  Pain, Love Is, Broken

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

  French Montana

  Spring, Water, Bottles

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• I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Mom, Kids, Giving

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• You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Moving, Cities, Bigger Than Life

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

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• It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Love You, Different, Clubs

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• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  Vagit Alekperov

  People, Giving, Advice

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• My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

  PSY

  People, Wife, Different

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• Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Years, Doe, Masters

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Kings, Growing Up, Fun

  "New Girl's Jake Johnson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

  Teyana

  Comfortable

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• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  Yul Vazquez

  Commitment, Boys, Thinking

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• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Queens, Thinking, Ties

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• The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

  Jo Durie

  Decision, Gone, Body

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• I feel energized walking off stage.

  Marketa Irglova

  Feels, Walking

  "'Once' more: The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova on their breakup, their new record, and the future of their band". Interview with Simon Vozick-Levinson, ew.com. October 23, 2009.

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• Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

  Erland Josephson

  Giving, Important, Trying

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• I’d rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I’m getting into and what it’s going to be like for our life together.

  Tamera Mowry

  Husband, Together, Knows

  "Tamera Mowry: ‘Sister, Sister’ Star Opens Up About Wedding, Kim Kardashian And New Show ‘Tia & Tamera’". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fame, Trembling, Fright

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• The stock actor is a stage calamity

  George Bernard Shaw

  Actors, Calamity

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• Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

  Matt Papa

  Eye, Guitar, Guy

  Twitter post from May 08, 2012

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• Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some very high, some very low.

  David Berg

  Class, Cities, Perfect

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• I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

  Matthew Rhys

  Sniffing, Ifs, I Can

  Source: variety.com

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• I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Lazy

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

  Jeremy Piven

  Actors

  "The Cast of 'Smokin’ Aces' Gets Interviewed". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 22, 2007.

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• The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Power, Political

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• Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

  Ken Wilber

  Plain Language, Progress, News

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.185, Shambhala Publications

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