Quotes About Stage

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

Bitty was a nickname. When I became an actress I kept it. It's the only thing that went with Schram!

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.

Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I grew up doing musical theater.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.