Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.
A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground. . . Kind of sort of.
I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.
Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on. . . mass murderers.
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
People have to form their own opinion. I've said everything I can say about it. I was viciously attacked from the stage, and I have a right to answer back. I've said everything I could say. I was viciously attacked on the stage, and I have a right to answer back.
Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.