Top 1200 Stage Play Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

The bigger the stage, I feel like the better I play.

The stage is where I started, and there is a tremendous satisfaction in doing a good play.

When I was little, all I could think about was just being on some kind of stage, whether it be on a live stage, whether it be on a set stage.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.

I play the best and have the most fun when the stage is brightest.

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

I'd love to play in the Big Bash at some stage.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

Growing up, I went to the Warped Tour a lot, and I got to see bands like Rancid and AFI and Dropkick Murphys and these bands that meant so much to me when I was a kid - all in succession on these stages, so to get to play that same stage that I watched those bands play is a huge thing for me.

The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In a movie, you are scene-to-scene; you only know the purpose of that scene. On the stage, that is artistic science. It is real, it is loving, it is truthfully you. It is two different formulas to make two different art pieces, but it is all about truth.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a "beginner's mind," be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it go.

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.

It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

I get the chance to play for my country. That's the biggest stage. It's an honor for me.

When you're on-stage, you're expected to perform in the bar business. You shake hands. You smile. You're all positive energy: you add to your environment. When you walk in the door to the back of the house, that's like a stage door. You're off-stage now.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

On screen, everyone stares at your face, but on stage, you can basically play anybody.

According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.

One day, those who play have to leave the stage.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.