Quotes About Stage

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

How exactly did Rue end up on stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

But even if all of us meet terrible ends, something happened on that stage tonight that can't be undone. We victors staged our own uprising, and maybe, just maybe, the Capitol won't be able to contain this one.

Haymitch plummets off the stage and knocks himself unconscious. He's disgusting, but I'm grateful. With every camera gleefully trained on him,

As if on cue, Haymitch falls off the stage, and they groan comically.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.

People have asked me what it was like to be on that stage, where I had lived so many lives, knowing it was the last time. Did my whole career pass through my mind in a flash? No, it didn't. It was not a memorial, it was a celebration. I felt like Cinderella at the ball, and I had been there all my life. It was roses without thorns.