Stage Quotes - Page 28

• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

  Celia Imrie

  Drama, School, Connections

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• I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

  Ashthon Jones

  Song, Writing, Want

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• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  People, Dancing, Sick

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

  Davy Jones

  Stage Performance, Edinburgh, Firsts

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• When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

  Keith Jarrett

  Sound, Strange, Streets

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• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Tom Jones

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.

  Lydia Ko

  Golf, Media, Play

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• The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

  Joe Morton

  Character, Mean, Eight

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• I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Play, Sitting, Theater

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• Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

  Mojo Nixon

  Acquaintance

  Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

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• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  Randy Newman

  Nice, Band, Wells

  "My Life Is Good". Interview with Mike Pagogna, May 30, 2011.

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• Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Feelings, Different

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• It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

  Miranda Otto

  Self, Careers, People

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• As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Distance, Degrees

  Song: Day of The Locusts, Album: New Morning, 1970

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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Freedom, Struggle, Responsibility

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

  Christian Louboutin

  Girl, Fashion, Children

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• It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

  George Lopez

  June, Firsts, Quitting

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• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Gender, Barriers

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• I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

  Clarke Peters

  Stage Actors, Actors, Performances

  "Is this it?". Interview with Adrian Lobb, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

  Christopher Plummer

  Sweet, Father, Talking

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• When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

  Jeremy Piven

  Growing Up, Growing

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  Oliver Platt

  New York, Kids, Stage Actors

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

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• I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

  Tom Perrotta

  Dream, Guitar, Play

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