All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Alan: "I had terrible stage fright. " Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright. '" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know. " S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way. " A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.
There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.
I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins. " I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up. . . so the next stage is hard work
You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.
It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set, and closed off to all crew members, even, unless we're cut. A lot of times, you're doing a scene in a movie and there are literally 35 people standing behind the camera all waiting to do their job, but here they have to be off the stage. On The Office, it is very much just the actors, a cameraman and a boom operator, like a real documentary, like we really are being documented.
You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.
America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U. S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.
I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.
I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
