Top 100 A Stage Quotes
#1. 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.
Cory Booker
#2. When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
Rachael Harris
#3. Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.
Lianne La Havas
#4. Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#5. For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
Conor Oberst
#6. I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.
Justin Kirk
#7. I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.
Dennis Christopher
#8. I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
Taye Diggs
#9. At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.
Laurence Steinberg
#10. To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson
#11. Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.
Flora Thompson
#12. Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
Brian Greene
#13. Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
Edmund Sears
#14. If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere!
Tom Althouse
#15. I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
Anne Hathaway
#16. There are times when one's life appears to be a stage. People come, people go. They come in order to go, and go with no intent of return. When they return, they return as one's past. A past that would make you feel that the present is false.
Vijay Tendulkar
#17. Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.
Lawrence Wright
#18. Opera? Dear God why?' That was the last thing I needed. A bunch of fat and painted idiots wailing at me from a stage for several hours. 'Just
Mark Lawrence
#19. Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard
#20. A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing
Milan Kundera
#21. I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.
Christina Aguilera
#23. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
Sam Shepard
#24. Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.
Gail Carriger
#25. I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
John Michael Higgins
#26. Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
John Logan
#27. Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
#28. The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
T.D. Jakes
#29. Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
George A. Sheehan
#30. I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
Kevin Whately
#31. The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely
Blake Crouch
#34. Every relationship reaches a stage where it reinvents itself or plays out.
Jameson Currier
#35. At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe
You all but sicken at the shifting scenes
And yet be patient. Our playwright may show
In some filth act what this wild drama means.
Jack London
#36. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#37. In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#38. I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.
Don Rickles
#39. We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.
David Levithan
#40. I had equal opportunity to touch God sitting in my room, singing Him songs, as I did on a stage in front of twenty thousand people.
Anna Blanc
#41. The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
George MacDonald
#42. All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
William Shakespeare
#43. As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
Kevin Pollak
#44. Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.
Rita Rudner
#45. As I came down the stairs, all attention turned from the girls, and everyone looked to me as though this were some sort of drama taking place on a stage, and I was the scorned lover come to confront my erstwhile beloved.
I was not. I was just a whore, nothing else. Nothing more.
Aislinn Kerry
#46. It's not always true that all the world's a stage. Sometimes it's a boxing ring. Right now I had a ringside seat at the Windjammer restaurant in Etonville, New Jersey.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#47. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
G. Wilson Knight
#48. All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey
#49. With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.
Martin McDonagh
#50. illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.
William Ritter
#51. Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
Greg Lake
#52. Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#53. I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present.
Diana Athill
#54. Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
Robert Mankoff
#55. I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
Howard Stern
#56. Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
John Fowles
#57. It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
Jan Karon
#58. I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Karl Rove
#59. I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage.
Kristen Schaal
#60. But, do not stay there. Spiritual adulthood has higher goals than "finding yourself." A reactive stage is a stage, not an identity. It is necessary, but not sufficient.
Henry Cloud
#61. I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.
Cecil Beaton
#62. I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton
#63. All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify
Erving Goffman
#64. There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.
Robert Edmond Jones
#65. What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.
Dada Bhagwan
#66. I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
Bryan Greenberg
#67. My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
Tommy Wiseau
#68. Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention ... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.
Ron Ben-Israel
#69. If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.
Pippa Evans
#70. Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.
Marlee Matlin
#71. People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
Fred Funk
#72. While American roads offer predictable safety, Indian roads compensate by providing unending entertainment, and even some opportunities for self growth. An Indian road is a stage where Life seems to be unabashedly living itself out.
Ajit Harsinghani
#73. Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
Norman Finkelstein
#74. I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.
Arthur Golden
#75. My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.
Celia Cruz
#76. I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.
Grant Morrison
#77. Venice is a stage, Orelia. Pretend for no other reason than to act like everybody else.
Kylie Fornasier
#78. I've never been the sort of person to walk into a room and have *clicks fingers* 50 women want to sleep with me, ok, and suddenly you walk across a stage and you have a video clip and you know girls want to go out with you and think you're beautiful!
Darren Hayes
#79. Blouse walking on to a stage dimly lit in blue. As an audience looks on somberly, the woman, Chai Jing, displays a graph of brown-red peaks with occasional troughs. This was the PM
Anonymous
#80. My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.
Richard Virenque
#81. No matter what you do, if you're on a stage constantly speaking to people, you need to make sure that you have something to say. You need to make sure you're fed in whatever profession you're doing.
Colton Dixon
#82. Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#83. There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood.
Ruth Ware
#84. I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
Kerry Washington
#85. For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'
Bonnie Langford
#86. 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.
Betty Sue Flowers
#87. The wise in all ages ... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#88. The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
#89. There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Tahir Shah
#90. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
#91. The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.
Arthur Tress
#92. There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.
Subodh Gupta
#93. In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.
August Wilson
#94. My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
Anthony Heald
#95. I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
Julie Andrews
#96. Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
Teyana Taylor
#97. What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.
Raymond E. Feist
#99. One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
Sarah Vowell
#100. The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
Yukio Mishima
