Stage Quotes
60 quotes
"When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities."
"All the world's a stage."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development."
"Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'."
"I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage."
"It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts."
"He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There would be no applause."
"My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage."
"The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else."
"If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”."
"In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that."
"My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me."
"Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you."
"I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart."
"When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies."
"The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world."
"Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper."
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare"
"We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life."
"Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!"
"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad."
Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
"A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life."
"We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!"
"One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed."
"William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?"
"No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!"
"No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile."
"They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight."
"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create."
"On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king."
"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."
"The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe."
"The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe."
"Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story?"
"I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running."
"A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment."
"They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two."
"God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life."
"I believe in one, that all people are just one a stage and everyone has his role in this stage. The life is seasons, with episodes every die and event which happen. Happen in a new chapter. You probably ask about the speech??? Easy, answer the speech is programmed up to the infinity so everything is allowed, it's just a brain programmed with the needed stuff the other is just taken from books, films and life!"
"Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away."
"Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily sketches of life..."
Shelly Branch, What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
"We tried to make a heaven of earth,But the earth is just a stage, a school,Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love."
Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
"Okay this guy looks like nerves, this guy sounds like angry, so the first will be the victim the angry guy more is suitable for a killer, isn't he?Angry stage, a stage in which you can do everything and when you become victim you start to feel sorry."
"This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective—all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers."
"Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!"
"Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?"
"I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have a perfect childhood? A perfect school life? I was happy once. But I was young. The older you get, the more you remember. The younger you are, the more you forget."
"Jokes are another example of stupidity... we are so wise and so clever and we do stupid stuff, how wise is that?Jokes on stage of being serious... when you aren't serious what you get is more likely somebody being in state of seriousness."
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