Quotes About Stage Directing

#1. Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks ... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

Emil Nolde

#2. I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

Justin Timberlake

#3. Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.

Katherine Paterson

#4. The prospect of being lonely but right - dedicating your life to something that no one else believes in - is already hard. The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.

Peter Thiel

#5. I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Brenda Lee

#6. Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

Adam Rapp

#7. Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Rocco DiSpirito

#8. When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

Christopher Gorham

#9. Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.

John Patrick Hickey

#10. I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Tommy Wiseau

#11. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#12. I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

Sherry Thomas

#13. I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen.

Mike Mayhall

#14. 'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

Elaine Paige

#15. Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

Jimmy Carl Black

#16. I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

Lucy Walker

#17. I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.

Ronnie Wood