Quotes About Stage

You get a lot of people who are used to the stage and a lot of people who are used to prime time, and they can't keep up with the pace. It's so fast - you have to digest it, regurgitate it, spit it out, and then start over and move on to the next scene.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I like to do the splits onstage.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out

I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

I'm a singer who moves well.

The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait - it's very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own - it's almost hypnotic.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

That's part of show business: the moving.

I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians and my mum and dad.

Mumbai and Gujarat are the two places that can be termed as the capital of theatre.

'205' should be called 'Buddy Murphy Live.' The championship is on my shoulder, and so is the show.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

For me, acting is like a holiday. I spend a lot of time at home with my kids, and then every so often I go out and flex my creative muscles on stage.