Quotes About Stage

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I love working in the theater.

People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

I'd love to do some theater.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

I was suddenly sure I wanted to be part of a journey toward insights so fundamental that they would never change. Let governments rise and fall, let World Series be won and lost, let legends of film, television, and stage come and go. I wanted to spend my life catching a glimpse of something transcendent.

At graduation, the entire Rosenstiel faculty rose as one to cheer Chaz as he crossed the stage, so elated were they to see the last of him.

Literary figures have no pre-history. It is said that a theatre director who was staging one of Harold Pinter's plays asked the playwright for some hints as to what his characters were up to before they came on stage. Pinter's reply was 'Mind your own fucking business.

You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

But stand-up is also one of the few art forms where women aren't judged on their appearance - possibly the only one where people are actually there to listen to what they say on stage.

Sometimes before I go on stage, I think about how people can be so judgmental and forget they're the ones who bought your album; they're the ones that are singing along.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.