I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.
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.
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U. S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.
I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.
I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.