What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
When I'm on stage I feel at home
I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.
I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.
Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.
Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write. I have to be in a good place. I'm a positive person.
I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.