Quotes About Stage

I am an internationally produced playwright.

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

Even though I've been making electronic music since I was 14, it's hard for people to see you as a producer with a musical identity when you're contextualized in a band that performs on a stage.

Raze' is a horror/action film and they asked me to get involved when it was just in the developmental stage - they also brought be on board as one of the producers and that is really what drew me to it.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

The fun image is what we project onstage, because our music is dance music. But it's not what the group is about We're very serious about our music and the band and producing good quality songs.

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.