“I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.” FeelsKindDoneActorsActingStageHappeningsDearEightGladIslandsRidingHanging OnCyclonesDear LifeConey Island Author:Fred Melamed
“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.” PeopleMenNeedsUseTodayAmericaNumbersStageFieldsDependsHappeningsForestsRationalReasonableGrainContinentsIrrationalFinitePlagueAttackingNorth AmericaMassacresPests Author:Edward Abbey
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.” ThinkingWantGivingRealPlayRealityActorsStuffEnvironmentStageHappeningsGreenScreensShootingCaptureReal Stuff Author:Michael Bay
“Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.” ThinkingMindStillsStageRight NowHappeningsMaking Up Author:Patsy Cline
“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.” WritingRealHappensActionActorsProcessStageDirectorsHappeningsLonelyProductionsDialogueEditorsEditingWriting ProcessAnimationDiscrete Author:Michael Arndt
“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.” IfsTryingRealityFilmSoundActingAirStageFrontsGoes OnHappeningsTricksFishing Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.” WayStageHappeningsMy WayCopingEscaping Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.” PeopleNeedsFeelsTryingMomentsFeltRealizingAttentionBrainFocusImaginePlansWorstStageHappeningsCalmTerrorConsistentThat MomentSurprisingThreadSurvivingWorst Moments Author:Amanda Ripley
“It depends on the project, what's happening that day on the project, at what stage were in on the project; it various from project to project and where we're needed.” StageDependsNeededProjectsHappeningsVarious Author:Bryan Burk
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.” KnowsShouldBelieveHas BeensDonePlayAblePoliticalNamesProcessAudienceStageWillingCommunicationDegreesHappeningsTheaterGratefulImpactRequirementsParticipationDisbeliefMake BelieveSpunSuspensionSuspension Of DisbeliefPolitical Participation Author:Peggy Noonan
“When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.” ArtPlayMomentsRoomsStageCommunicationGoes OnHappeningsPerformances Author:Gail Ann Dorsey
“For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.” BelieveI CanDreamStageHappeningsAlbums Author:Rokia Traore
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.” StillsWantedRememberSongGirlBehindsHappenedStageReadySingingHappeningsGratefulBe GratefulCostumesOther Girl Author:Katy Perry
“'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.” WorldArtMomentsArtistStageHappeningsMachinesPerformancesPunkCagesScarceTransportArt WorldCombiningEdgyDo It YourselfEthosCrumblingTime MachinePerformance Art Author:Jerry Saltz
“When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.” WayTryingMindLooksDifferentRememberThreeHoursMillionsStageHappeningsMilesIntenseRight WayCircusBagels Author:Steven Wright
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.” WayWritingKindCountryDoneLightPoliticalClassMiddleStageNeededWeaponsHappeningsExcitingResponsibleShiningActivismIndianMiddle ClassPrizePrincessDarlingEmergingAmmunitionPolitical Activism Author:Arundhati Roy