Stage Quotes - Page 23

• There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  Li Keqiang

  Country, Social Unrest, Growth

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• My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

  Haley Reinhart

  Eight, Parent, Taught

  "Haley Reinhart Plots 'Sultry, Bluesy Rock' Future After 'Idol'". Interview with Gary Graff, www.billboard.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Perfect, Humans

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

  Conor Maynard

  Black, Watches, Wrists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

  Estelle

  Actors, Staff, Stage Managers

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• Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

  Laura Michelle Kelly

  Ready

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• Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Giving, Humanity

  Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

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• There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

  Mary McCormack

  Fun, Acting, Feedback

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

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• Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it’s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where I’m most confident and where I’m at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And I’m still searching for more ways.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Fun, Eye, Snsd

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• It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
  Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
  With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
  And called himself the monarch of the world;
  Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
  Because the play was done, to shift himself,
  Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
  The moment he had shut the closet door,
  By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
  At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
  And whose part he presumed to play just now.
  Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

  Robert Browning

  Death, Being Yourself, Mean

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Games, Icons

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

  Thornton Wilder

  Real, Drama, Eye

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Nov.

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• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

  Martha Graham

  Philosophy, Moving, Land

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• Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

  Harold Bloom

  Language, Multicultural, Feels

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• Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards.

  Desmond Morris

  Animal, Order, Three

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Loss, Joy

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Eye, Men, Race

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  Jerry Hall

  Three, Rehearsal, Auditions

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

  John Lahr

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Survival, Democracy, Development

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• A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Play, House

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Awful

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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