Stage Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Mistake, Drunk, Remember

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• I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

  Marisa Tomei

  Film, Paychecks

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

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• I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Bigs, Councillors

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

  Jenny Eclair

  Fall, People, Worry

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

  Ellen Barkin

  Issues, Film, Intimacy

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

  Moss Hart

  Careers, Advice, Actors

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

  Yukio Mishima

  Space, Childhood, Periods

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Miranda Richardson

  Acting, Roles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Actors, Done, Broadway

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• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  Pat Benatar

  Beautiful, Taken, Careers

  "Pat Benatar and Husband Neil Giraldo: 'We Were Two Missing Pieces That Found Each Other'". Interview with Erin Hill, parade.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.

  Rutger Hauer

  Father, Thinking, Eight

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• When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

  Shalom Harlow

  New York, Fun, Design

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• I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

  Jim Henson

  Design, Theatre, Acting

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• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  Sam Shepard

  Real, Knowing, Alive

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• When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Reflection, Doubt, Preparation

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• I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

  Sara Bareilles

  Artist, Apples, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  Bob Balaban

  Creating, Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

  Jamie Bell

  Different, Looks, Levels

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• I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Shooting

  "Kathryn Bigelow: back in the danger zone" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

  Kelly Bishop

  Fun, Eight, People

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• I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

  Kelly Brook

  Kids, Theatre, Pantomime

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  Saffron Burrows

  Song, Guitar, Years

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• When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

  Saffron Burrows

  Children, Pumps, Way

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