Quotes About Stage

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

In fact, I became popular in Kerala after I took part in a reality dance show and despite making my foray into films as an actress I make it a point to take part in stage shows whenever I find time.

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

Generally, I travel with my own cast to stage plays in different countries.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.

I tap my fingers and cheekbones before going on stage to calm down. But nerves are necessary; if you ever lose them, it's a bad sign.

We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.