Quotes About Stage

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

That's the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.

I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

Getting on stage doing standup anytime is hard. You never know what you're going to say. You live and die on your next word.

When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

I still do standup.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.

They are official sinners but privately repentants. At the present stage of our society even the relation between sin and repentance may have undergone a fundamental change and may be the opposite of what it used to be formerly.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage