I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He spoke with a heavy Irish accent. “I didn’t tell her how hard you are on them either,” Patch returned, his mouth at the relaxed stage just before a grin.
When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
I am just trying to die on the stage just as simple as that. I just like going in man. Just give it my all and enjoy it.
I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.
The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.
If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.
I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert. ' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.
I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
