Quotes About Presence

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Well, I can't help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe. You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you? He shook his head. To night she is Imogen, he answered, and tomorrow night she will be Juliet. When is she Sibyl Vane? Never. I congratulate you.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

It is this type more than any others whose style it is to stand by another person (or plant or animal), with no intention to influence it, criticize it, or change it-perhaps not even to interact with it-only to be in its presence.