Quotes About Stage

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

Our whole life is like a play.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

I've never been onstage in my life.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Sure, I have resigned from specific love affairs since such a stage of life that one can neither afford nor carry out its obligations; consequently, it may earn significant risks of self-isolation.

I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and—hooray—they were going to listen.

The new living flesh was replicating the old in a game, we were a chain of shadows who had always been on the stage with the same burden of love, hatred, desire, and violence.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

A clever way often for a person to get the biggest footage in a tv show is to say that he wants to hug the contestant by coming up over the stage.

Every preacher enjoys own life like anything from birth to mid to old age and then from the public stage pompously says that '' IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE YOUTH TO BRING CHANGE with a mere intention to gain praise for self from the audience.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.