Quotes About Stage

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of a stage of life, Nietzsche remarked.

Success in the larger sale depends, more than anything else, on how the Investigating stage of the call is handled.

In our research we consistently found that the people who were most effective during the Investigating stage were the ones most likely to be top sales performers.

For literature, all the world is a stage.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

To the stalled mind, the present stage will always seem advanced. To the free mind, the present stage will always seem elementary.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

In a system which is not in equilibrium, or in part of such a system, entropy need not increase. It may, in fact, decrease locally. Perhaps this non-equilibrium of the world about us is merely a stage in a downhill course which will ultimately lead to equilibrium. Sooner or later we shall die, and it is highly probable that the whole universe around us will die the heat death, in which the world shall be reduced to one vast temperature equilibrium in which nothing really new ever happens

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

To crudely paraphrase a far more elegant apology than ours: Piece out our imperfections with your mind; think - when we speak of whale-boats, whales and oceans, that you see them - for 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our stage; jumping o'er time; turning the accomplishments of many years into an hour-glass...

He pointed to an actress next, calling her an old hag. He told me how she played her own life more dramatically than any stage role. And there, he continued, goes a landlord, a coward who always grumbles about how hard he works.

An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Going on stage was like being at a butchers' convention. And, of course, the animal rights people were going nuts. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent people to 'monitor' our gigs. The crew would f**k with them all the time. They'd say, 'Oh, Ozzy's going to throw eighteen puppies into the audience tonight, and he won't sing a note until they've all been slaughtered.' The ASPCA believed every word of it.

After a real snake ended up on stage one night, it was well and truly pissed off about being on stage with Ozzy Osbourne, that snake was.