Quotes About Stage

My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

We're gonna give you a great show.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

The E3 Coliseum will only make E3 more exciting to fans, as it create an opportunity to see the world's top game creators and special guests live on stage.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

'Gypsy' is the ultimate stage-mother story: Mama Rose is the one who should have been a star; she's the one with the talent. But she chose to have kids and put her dreams into them. The musical shows the power of showbiz and how much it can mean to someone.

For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.

I remember doing Broadway, I started Broadway in 2005, and, of course, I sing two songs in the play, 'Hairspray'.

It would be a dream to perform at Radio City Music Hall.

It's really a music hall act that we do.

Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . . . And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the disguises and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.

I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

At the end of the book you know Micawber, whereas you only know what has happened to David, and are not interested enough in him to wonder what his politics or religion might be if anything so stupendous as a religious or political idea, or a general idea of any sort, were to occur to him. He is tolerable as a child; but he never becomes a man, and might be left out of his own biography altogether but for his usefulness as a stage confidant

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.