Quotes About Stage

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.

A life had been ruined. What was it for: just some social media drama? I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.

with social media we've created a stage for constant artificial high dramas. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.

A group of stage mothers from the Children's Palace Theater was enlisted to make the gift baskets. While calfskin could not be found for the making of gloves, the most supple replacement—puppy—was chosen.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

Musical theater is one of my passions.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera does that work for you.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.