Quotes About Stage

Thus, they did not concern themselves with what the world was, as a scientist might have it, but with how a human being should act. I suggested that our ancestors portrayed the world as a stage—a drama—instead of a place of objects. I described how I had come to believe that the constituent elements of the world as drama were order and chaos, and not material things.

Drama—formalized imitation, enacted upon a stage—is precisely behavior portraying behavior, but distilled ever closer to the essence. Literature takes that transmission one more difficult step, portraying action in the imagination of the writer and the reader, in the complete absence of both real actors and a material stage.

my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Dana followed a specific structure: Set the stage. Gather data. Generate insights. Decide what to do. Close the retrospective.

We were taught firmly as children that whenever any member of the family appeared on the stage we were never to applaud. Never! It just wasn't done, either when they came on the stage or at the end of the performance. To do so would have been to break one of the firmest family rules of etiquette.

To her the theater was never "show business." My grandmother would rise up out of her grave if she heard me use that word. She'd say "show--do you mean a circus?" and she would say it as if she were the Red Queen saying, "Off with her head!"

Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air.

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

If our country is going to remain competitive on the world stage, then we must start with rebuilding our infrastructure, providing secure and well-paying jobs, making our energy grid cleaner and more reliable, and increasing access to broadband.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

I relish performing.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

I remember when I gave my first recital. I thought, 'Oh, my goodness, people are coming to hear me.' I didn't expect anyone to come, and then the whole hall filled up. Of course, it wasn't a big hall, and some of the people were my friends and family.

I want to be remembered as a great performer.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.

Certainly with stage, as I'm remembering, you don't get to spend any time at home. With film, you might do three, four days a week, and they might not be full days. So that aspect of it was a consideration. But I also just wanted to try different kinds of working.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.