Stage Quotes - Page 34

• You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

  David Giuntoli

  Fighting, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Roles, Actors

  "Tom Hiddleston THE AVENGERS Set Visit Interview". Interview on the Set, collider.com. April 2, 2012.

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.

  Mike Tyson

  Giving, Want, Anticipation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Actors, Kind

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

  Rose Leslie

  Fun, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life of love and justice, that when crisis and catastrophe hits you, that the biggest mansion in the world is not going to help you. If you don't have anybody who loves you, if you don't have any God who cares for you, that you're not going to have what it takes to move to the next stage in your life.

  Cornel West

  Love You, Moving, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Character, Leather Jackets, Jeans

  Source: collider.com

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• We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Eye, Adventure, Promise

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• I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

  Lucinda Riley

  Past, Littles, Filling

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• The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Character, Soul, Utterance

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1971). “Hegel's Philosophy of Mind”, p.265, Library of Alexandria

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• The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

  Allan Bloom

  Spiritual, Unity, Energy

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 280, 1990.

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• Une ample Come  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Different, Comedy, Hundred

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• My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Color White, Yellow

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• A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

  Damon Lindelof

  Ideas, Clothes, Feelings

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• My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.

  Bill Cosby

  Football, Father, School

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• I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Long

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• I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Teaching, Mold

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Hands, Evil, May

  Andrew Dickson White (1960). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”

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• There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Grief, Feelings

  “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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• A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

  Moss Hart

  Reality, Play, Study

  1959 Act One.

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• I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

  Max Muller

  Mean, Eye, Hair

  "Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas". Book by Max Müller, 1888.

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• All the world's not a stage.

  Theodor Adorno

  World

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Simplicity, Effort

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.

  Dave Matthews

  Lying, Fall, Hands

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