Quotes About Stage

Life is just a show and I just can't stand the fact that one day the curtain is going to close.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

I keep going on about it, but musicians are a unique sort. The stage is everything to them – there's nothing outside of it. It's as if they're still performing in a school play and their mam's out in the audience and they're busting a gut to upstage every other fucker around them. I've got to keep an eye on this all the time.

On October 23, 1963, Barefoot in the Park opened on Broadway. Just before his extremely nervous cast took the stage, Nichols gathered them for a final pep talk. "Everybody relax," Redford says he told them. "You know your positions, you know your laughs, you know your lines, you know where the comfort zones are. So enjoy yourselves, and remember: Everything depends on tonight.

The first part, the setup, sets the stage. The second half, the punch line, provides an unexpected ending. It's the surprising conclusion that causes laughter.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

More basses, because you are so far away.

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 stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.