If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.
I go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.
I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance. . . everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
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.
When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.
I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.
Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.
Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.
Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
. . . I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up
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.
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.