Top 37 Stage Manager Quotes
#1. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Jung
#2. An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
Jeremy Irons
#3. There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
John Kander
#4. I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.
Brian Blessed
#5. He's not a movie star, and I'm not his stage manager. We're the same two desperately connected people who fell down a rabbit hole years earlier and climbed out forever changed.
Leisa Rayven
#6. And now, the bane of your existence, the killer of all joys, the Stage Manager-
Lisa Mantchev
#7. If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere!
Tom Althouse
#8. I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.
Glenn Ford
#9. As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.
Rebecca Wells
#10. Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
Adam Rapp
#11. And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know! ... provided I can memorize the lines.
Spalding Gray
#12. EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it ... every, every minute?"
STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe ... they do some.
Thornton Wilder
#13. I have no issue with Elissa. She's a fantastic stage manager, and we've worked together before. In fact, a million years ago we used to be good friends. Back when I still thought her brother was born of a human mother and not spawned straight from Satan's asshole.
Leisa Rayven
#14. I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
Corey Reynolds
#15. People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
Marvin Bower
#16. MICHAEL: Maybe just this: A manager has got to remember that he is on stage every day. His people are watching him. Everything he does, everything he says, and the way he says it, sends off clues to his employees. These clues affect performance. So never forget you are on that stage.
Marcus Buckingham
#17. Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?
Desiderius Erasmus
#18. The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don't know you have.
Amy Neftzger
#19. So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you?
Liane Moriarty
#20. Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#21. Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.
Susan Ee
#23. We're building our own fucking cubicles.
Thor Benson
#24. I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
Victoria Woodhull
#25. Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
Anasazi Foundation
#27. You walk and walk and walk and then you look at back and see your youth, so far away from you, so young, so curious, so hopeful, so breezy, so brave! To feel young in old age, remember your youth very often! Remind yourself frequently what you were once!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
Stella Adler
#29. Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words."
"It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.
Conn Iggulden
#30. Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
Jerry Hall
#31. My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.
Witold Gombrowicz
#32. I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
Joe DiMaggio
#34. I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
Richard Lester
#35. A wicked grin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face.
I blinked, then read the note.
Use the key.
Darynda Jones
#36. My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.
Brandon Uranowitz
#37. Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?
Hideaki Sena
