“I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.” ThinkingPersonsTodayFoundStageChangedFortunateBalletChanged My LifeAnd Off Author:Misty Copeland
“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.” IfsYearsMotherActorsNamesStageChangedEightTouched Author:David Nicholls
“I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.” PeopleMadeKidsFoundAttentionStageChangedMomJokesMy MomEightMonstersNineLikesShyShellsSneakers Author:Justin Timberlake
“My sound has changed. It's still hiphop, but it's more of like a rock/hip-hop show. It's high energy, stage diving, pyrotechnics, girls showing their breasts. It's crazy party atmosphere.” StillsShowsGirlEnergySoundPartyCrazyRocksStageChangedHip HopHipsAtmosphereBreastsHopsDivingHigh EnergyPyrotechnics Author:Vanilla Ice
“Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.” MadeChoicesDecisionTakenStageChangedNo Turning Back Author:Mr. Lee
“A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.” MayWarMovingGivenSituationPlansStageChangedStableStrategicTactical Author:Mao Zedong
“My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!” StageChangedFinishedLife Changing Author:Eric Thomas
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man was played to the back of the house. When we turned the cameras on that, it changed a bit with close-ups, but we got just as much power in that beautiful intimacy.” MenWayPlayBeautifulHouseBitsStageChangedHe ManCamerasVersionsIntimacyBryan Author:Jay Roach