Stage Quotes - Page 25

• I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

  Kelly Bishop

  Fun, Eight, People

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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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• My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

  Ruth Brown

  Church, Streets

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  Saffron Burrows

  Song, Guitar, Years

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  Saffron Burrows

  School, Littles, Stuff

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• I'm not a big raised stage fan.

  Tom Bergeron

  Fans, Bigs, Raised

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• No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

  Reeve Carney

  Long, Negative, Use

  "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.

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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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• And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

  Colbie Caillat

  Night, Going Out, My Own

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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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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Eight, Here I Am

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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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• 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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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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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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• Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Careers, Influential

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

  Neko Case

  Nervous, Feels, Fearful

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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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• I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

  Sofia Coppola

  People, Different, Moments

  "I don't like being told what to do", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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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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• 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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