Stage Quotes - Page 8

• The stage, the show, the fans, that doesn’t matter because I’m always gonna fight my fight.

  Cat Zingano

  Fighting, Fans, Matter

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• Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Giving, Humanity

  Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

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• There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

  Mary McCormack

  Fun, Acting, Feedback

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

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• Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it’s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where I’m most confident and where I’m at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And I’m still searching for more ways.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Fun, Eye, Snsd

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• It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
  Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
  With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
  And called himself the monarch of the world;
  Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
  Because the play was done, to shift himself,
  Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
  The moment he had shut the closet door,
  By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
  At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
  And whose part he presumed to play just now.
  Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

  Robert Browning

  Death, Being Yourself, Mean

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

  Art Buchwald

  New York, Sky, Dancing

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

  Herman Wouk

  Drama, Eye, Black

  New York Times, June 2, 1985.

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

  Thornton Wilder

  Character, Past, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Girl, Spotlight, Littles

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• Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

  Harold Bloom

  Language, Multicultural, Feels

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• I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

  Lauren Bacall

  My Own, Felt

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Childhood, Luck

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Hands, Two, Public Opinion

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  Larry David

  Wells, Knows

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

  Penelope Keith

  Typical, Television, Used

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• A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Play, House

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Eight, Here I Am

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• I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

  Kenny Rogers

  Awards, Remember, Walking

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• John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

  Ben Kingsley

  Song, Writing, London

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• The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

  Henri Poincare

  Children, Moving, History

  "'La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement' ('Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching')". Book by Henri Poincare, 1899.

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• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

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• Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Conventional

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• New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

  Patrice Pavis

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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