Top 1200 Stage Directions Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I personally respect Bobby. He does really well on stage. Although I don't think his raps are exceptional or that he has a wide spectrum, his ability to dominate the stage is good, and he has a cool style of hip-hop that rappers aren't able to achieve.

BJP is a no-nonsense party and once the high command gives directions, it is followed through.

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

We have some extremely talented people that we've ripped off the Broadway stage. It's awe-inspiring how talented they are, and how can-do they are. They're at that stage of life where it's like, "Yeah, let's put on a show!" That's really fun to watch.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road.

A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.

If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely different character. But when you're someone like me, you don't want to have a persona. I want to be exactly who I am on stage.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

You know, sexism in the punk scene - or just in rock and roll in general - is so easily demonstrated by the amount of women or queer people that you see on stage versus the amount of cis males that you see on stage.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

The world stage is very difficult. It's not easy to be on the world stage.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.

Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him.

Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

I am the same man writing the music. I haven't changed directions to suit anyone except me.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.