Quotes About Stage

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]!

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.