Stage Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

  Robert Englund

  Play, Lines, Nightmare

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

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• A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

  Sia Furler

  Real, People, Expecting

  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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• As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

  Don McLean

  Art, Angel, Media

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• Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

  Bob Seger

  Art, Stars, Media

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• In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

  Rodney Crowell

  Art, Children, Media

  Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Cameras, Seven

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• Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

  David Coverdale

  Rocks, Voice, Band

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• I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

  David Cross

  Funny, People, Giving

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• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

  Jane Campion

  Acting, Television, Littles

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

  Monique Coleman

  Girl, Stars, Fun

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• Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

  Ray Davies

  Brother, Play, Together

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• I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

  Roger Daltrey

  Night, Sweat, Salt

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• You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

  Isla Fisher

  Sports, Horse, Skills

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

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• That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

  Maureen Forrester

  Giving, Clubs, Littles

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• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  Paloma Faith

  Running, Hate, Rain

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• Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

  Peter Gallagher

  Firsts, Moments, First Time

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• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  Victor Garber

  Missing, Feels, Comfortable

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

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• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  Calvin Harris

  Looks, Matter, Invaders

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

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• I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Drama, Men, Intelligent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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• Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.

  Lianne La Havas

  Color, Shapes, Remember

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• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Theatre, Chekhov

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• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

  Celia Imrie

  Acting, Goes On, Shows

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