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Quotes About Stage

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
~ Carmen Electra
Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.
~ Jennifer Westfeldt
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
~ Francis Quarles
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument without a tomb.
~ Ben Jonson
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.
~ John Dryden
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
~ Paul Beatty
Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.
~ Steve Martin
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Every time I read where some woman gave a short talk I wonder how she stopped.
~ Kin Hubbard
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
~ William Shakespeare
When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.
~ Mark Waid
I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...
~ Mark Waid
Little idiosyncratic expressions can form A sense of who one is. Who one was. One can, hypothetically, be brought back In the form of an actor Who gives an after the fact replication Of text conveyed in a character's voice. I can no more understand the world as a stage Of myself, mired as I am, In this missing.
~ Mary Jo Bang
Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.
~ Unknown
Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't matter, they don't care, and they're not listening it's a mantra to remind yourself that every moment you spend on stage is a moment you need to spend serving the tribe.
~ Unknown
Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
~ Matt Haig
I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.
~ Matt Haig
And then he - Tchaikovsky - turned towards the little lectern that was on the stage, picked up his baton and held it in the air. He paused a moment. It was like watching an old wizard with a wand, summoning the energy needed to cast a spell... Time slowed inside that moment. Then the music began.
~ Matt Haig
A 'band' was 'onstage' playing 'music'.
~ Matt Haig
No creo que tu problema fuera el pánico escénico. O el miedo a casarte. Creo que tu problema era el miedo a la vida.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
~ Matt Haig