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“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

“I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.”

Play Stage Sitting Theater Seats Junkie

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.”

Littles Play Dream Next Stage Calling Guitar Rhythm Springsteen

Author:Tom Perrotta

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.”

Way Important Play Moments Shows Light Walks Stage Band Perception Red Blow Spots Performers Crucial Glowing Tempo Flashlights Important Moments

Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Play Dream Bigs Careers Struggle Player Stage Battle Tennis Worthwhile Worth It Tournaments Doubted Tennis Player

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.”

Years Kind Play Actors Social Stuff Deals Audience Issues Stage Members Driven Really Great Social Issues Stage Actors

Author:Danny Strong

“I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.”

Writing Play Wanted Song Stage Currents

Author:K. D. Lang

“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”

Ifs Feels Done Play Bits Stage Like You Weight Passing Passings Instance Torches Staggering Passing It

Author:Samuel West

“I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.”

Play Stage

Author:James Young

“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.”

Inspirational Different Soul Play Film Life Is Walks Roles Stage Buddhism Birth Please Theatre Popcorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.”

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Author:Linda Lavin

“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

People Knows Firsts May Play Film Roles Stage Comfortable Theater Wings Screens Know Me First Love

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.”

Stills Book Ideas Play Dream Film Form Force Memories Chance Stage Television Adults Active Translate Connecting Stage Play

Author:Joe Meno

“In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.”

May Play Nature Stage Setting Settings Vacation Props

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.”

Thinking Men Play Causes Acting Boys Stage He Man Huge Commitment Yeah Frontline

Author:Yul Vazquez

“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.”

People Thinking Knows Stills I Can Play Whole Hands Jesus Stage Fronts Band Guitar Excited Lizards Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.”

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Author:Sam Waterston

“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Trying Play Past Song Gone One Thing Stage Pure Intention

Author:Ryan Adams

“I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.”

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Author:Julianna Margulies

“I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.”

Play Stage

Author:Todd Rundgren

“I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.”

Play Stage Television Series Broke Ashamed Meant To Be Broadway Snob

Author:Jennifer Garner

“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.”

“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

“The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.”

Giving Stills Play Artist Rooms Vision Stage Materials Directors Interpretation Translations

Author:August Wilson

“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.”

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Book:Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

Source: Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

Men Said Play Facts Wanted School Father Left Stage Football Fool Ass Pro Football

Author:Bill Cosby

“I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”

Men World Play Stage

Book:The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited

Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited

“I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.”

Play Reality Left Study Stage Aspect Breeze

Author:Moss Hart

“Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.”

Play Hands Lying Fall Stage Passing Passings Falling Down Resigned Hands Up

Author:Dave Matthews

“A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.”

World Play Stage Ought Invisible Manifestation Visible Display Intersections Stage Play

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?”

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Author:Stan Lee

“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

Want Play Bigs Age Remember Stuff Sides Seeing Stage Angel Guitar Dust Gigs Dean

Author:Mike Patton

“If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.”

Ifs Play Stage Setting Settings

Author:Morris Lapidus

“If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.”

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Author:Fay Weldon

“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”

Trying Play Problem Literature Stage Evasion

Author:Edward Bond

“I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.”

Thinking Knows Two Play Running Guy Teacher Stage Golf Rounds Complicated

Author:Vijay Singh

“I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.”

Thinking Way Should Years Play Actors Stage Tradition

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.”

Men Way Doe Has Beens Sometimes Play Whole Use Action Values Attitude Stage Evolution Judgment Concerned Independent Affair Every Man Permit Rulers Dependence Free Man Personal Power

Author:Rudolf Rocker

“To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.”

Years Firsts Long Play America Stage Tradition Legacy Make Sense Epic Festivals Iconic Dance Music Woodstock

Author:Steve Aoki

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