Stage Quotes - Page 26

• On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

  Rob Delaney

  Husband, Dad, Believe

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

  Tom DeLonge

  Fire, People, Band

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• Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

  Andy Dick

  Christian, People, Goes On

  "Andy Dick Finds God the Hard Way". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. May, 2003.

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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 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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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Television

  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'm always up for going back to the stage.

  Taye Diggs

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

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Theatre, Terrible

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• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Character, Want, Boundaries

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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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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• 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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• Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Tenacious

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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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• The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

  David Gill

  Expansion, Feasibility, Stadiums

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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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• 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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