Quotes About Stage

How could anyone get a sensible bearing on life from the stage of an auditorium, or make any useful statements from that position?

Vesta Tilley and Marie Lloyd on the stage in Leeds meself, with me own eyes, mavourneen. Then there are the new tramcars. Amazing vehicles, to be sure, that run on tracks without the need for horses to pull 'em any more. They go from the Corn Exchange to all parts of town. I have ridden on one, sure and I have. I sat on the top deck, that's open to the world and the weather, viewing the town like a real gent.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

Now, the scene you just saw, I began, pointing to the stage. Was about you and T.C., he concluded, nodding like he already knew. What?? She pretends she doesn't like him and he pretends he doesn't care. I had no handy rebuttal to that particular allegation and wouldn't have been able to come up with one if I'd been given a week's notice. So I countered with the only safe reply I could think of. The toilet is not working properly.

I opened the show with this line: I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

In my opening seconds, I would say, It's great to be here, then move to several other spots on the stage and say, No, it's great to be here! I would move again: No, it's great to be here!

Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

don't do anything unless you are asked to do it. Once the relationship has reached this stage, the typical commitmentphobic feels too guilty to ask anything of a woman because he doesn't want her to ask too much of him.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.