Stage Quotes - Page 40

• If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Giving, Moments, Shows

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 01, 2012

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• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

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• Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Running, House, Opera

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Kids, Cutting, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Levels

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.

  Bill Maher

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Stupidity

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.

  Ron White

  Long, Trying, Clubs

  Source: www.tv.com

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• Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Baby, Grandmother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• We [Paramore] are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that our crowd and the audience that comes to our shows brings out of us. Different people bring different sides out of each other, and for sure our fans bring out the most hyper and ridiculous side of us because we get so psyched to see everyone when we're on stage.

  Hayley Williams

  Home, People, Crowds

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

  Sophia Bush

  Passion, School, Doctors

  Source: z15.invisionfree.com

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• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  Christina Aguilera

  Real, Acting, Honest

  "Christina Aguilera Interview, Burlesque". www.moviesonline.ca. August 22, 2018.

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Hands, Spoons, Excited

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.

  Howard Schultz

  Men, White, Race

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• If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

  Sarah Silverman

  Writing, Ideas, Stuff Happens

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• I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.

  David Rees

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Goal

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.

  Benjamin Creme

  Inspiration, Illumination, Meditation

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• People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wings, Ideas, People

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• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Believe, Acting, Green

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.

  Stella Chess

  Mother, Children, Years

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• At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

  Claire Danes

  Teenager, Thinking, Dying

  "New Again: Claire Danes". Interview with Emily McDermott and Mark Marvel, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

  Alan Tudyk

  Play, Tools, Stage Actors

  "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Chicago, Scene

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