Quotes About Stage

Later, crying became simply affirmation of feeling, and feeling the only compass in life. Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.

When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

I dreamt of going on the stage once, he said, looking crestfallen. It's never too late, I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

Let me play a Man in a scene.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.