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“Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.”

People Way Desire Actors Greater Stage Prove Inclination

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.”

I Can Winning Stage Emmys

Author:Cat Deeley

“On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.”

World Stage

Author:Hope Solo

“I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.”

Trying Doe Different Self Responsibility Stage Fashion Style Color Duty Core Invites New Things Spices Wardrobe Collectors Vintage Basics Accessories Different Colors Fashion Style

Author:Camila Alves

“I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.”

Play Wanted Stage Listening Seven Guitar Violin Uncool

Author:Emun Elliott

“There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.”

People Ifs Long Actors Acting Stage Missing Goes On Theater Enormous Haul Long Haul

Author:Justin Kirk

“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.”

People Kids Imagination Rooms Stage Fronts My Family Active Making Money Performing Living Room

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.”

Ifs Thinking Play Would Be Running Plans Stage Return Musical

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.”

Hard House Fun Space Stage Tiny Luxury Giants Seats

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.”

Play Moments Light Can Do Dark Acting Four Stage Beats Breaths Productions Hats That Moment Drummer

Author:Ken Stott

“On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.”

Art Matter Able Imagination Levels Acting Stage Aspect No Matter What Green Radio Screens

Author:Stephen Lang

“Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.”

Fun Roles Stage Down And Settling Settling Down Fun Things

Author:Stephen Lang

“I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.”

Wanted Night Stage Notes Managers One Night Stage Managers

Author:Corey Reynolds

“I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.”

Stage Nerves Relaxed

Author:Steven Weber

“The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.”

People Thinking Persons Different Seems Stage Truth Is About Yourself New Things Different Peoples

Author:Sara Rue

“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”

Years Persons Stills Sides Rooms Stage Goes On Directors Ten Lunch Auditions Casting Skip Best Person Casting Directors

Author:Carly Schroeder

“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”

Feels Children Home Stage Grew Comfortable Grew Up Teenager

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.”

Stills Different Stories Wanted School Courses Audience Stage Fronts Television Involved High School Exciting Theater Luxury Get Back Broadway

Author:Dennis Haysbert

“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”

Writing Years Wells Play Four Stage Band Singing Who I Am Fortunate Get Back Four Years Solo Gigs Pulse Groove Good Bands

Author:Arthur Godfrey

“I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.”

Moments Lines Forget Stage Brief Moments

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.”

Firsts Acting Roles Stage Goes On Boxes Shy Covered Costumes Robots Cardboard Boxes

Author:Jessica Raine

“I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.”

People Able Song Stage Mics

Author:Sevyn Streeter

“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.”

“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Book Enough Would Be Reading Audience Fire Too Much Written Stage Setting Settings Scare Laptops

Author:Robin Wasserman

“Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.”

Seems Levels Growing Stage

Book:The hills of Beverly

Source: The hills of Beverly

“I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.”

Fun Forget Audience Stage Having Fun Never Forget

Author:Aaliyah

“Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.”

Thinking Mind Stills Stage Right Now Happenings Making Up

Author:Patsy Cline

“For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.”

Careers Stage Color Seasons Suicide

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life.”

People Thinking Want Kids Dies Careers Stage Fine Scared Ruins Worried Full Life

Author:Katy Perry

“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.”

Ifs States Force United United States Stage Arms Gun International Scales Setting Settings Senate Treaties

Author:Paul Broun

“A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.”

Mind Two Play Form Audience Stage Splits Playwright Schizophrenia Protagonists Antagonist Uber Stage Play Two Minds

Author:David Mamet

“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.”

Men Mean War Play Passion Stage Circumstances Gun Profound Instance Provoking Soup Garbage Beggar Deck Provocation

Book:Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

“At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.”

People Knows Want Feels Trying Audience Laughing Stage Singers Superiors Comic Seats Looking Down Sahara

Author:Buddy Hackett

“The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.”

Shows Rocks Stage Band Rock And Roll Jeans Theatrical

Author:Amanda Palmer

“What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.”

Giving Magic Stage Emotional Tricks Hook

Author:David Copperfield

“I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.”

People Giving Persons Long Stills Sometimes Shows Pain Values Turns Strong Forget Taken Fans Stage Long Time Beats Entertainment Mike Forget You

Author:Axl Rose

“I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.”

Comedy Happened Stage Crowds Clubs Tuesday Thursday Nyc Comedy Clubs

Author:Bill Burr

“As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.”

Knows Looks Children States Home Running President Walks United United States Stage Broken Drug Ran Welfare Governors Senators Look At Me Ghetto Dealer Gangsters Drug Dealers Broken Homes

Author:Al Sharpton

“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.”

Firsts Said Two Hours Half Stage Havens Goes On Late Supposed To Be Concerts Fifth Festivals Half Hours Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.”

People Space Stage Backgrounds Working It Theatrical

Author:Peter Weir

“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”

“In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.”

Firsts Stories Three Practice Path Meditation Stage Morality Take Time Life Story

Book:How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

“My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.”

Names Stage Belts Vans Djs

Author:Armin van Buuren

“One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.”

People Stills Wonderful Stage Awareness Disease Tough Capacity Nancy Alzheimer Speaking Out Dames Great Change

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit”

Giving Writing Years Remember Song Streets Stage Cold Couple Giving Up Paper Years Ago Sake Never Giving Up Blades Find Me Razors Sweating Sold Out Writing Love Writing Love Songs

Author:Ed Sheeran

“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.”

Facts Form Cases Stage Type Evolution Relation Historical Various Globes Historical Facts

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.”

Way Important Whole Stars Magic Rocks Stage Compare Idols Rock Star Presentation Hendrix

Author:Freddie Mercury

“The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.”

Moments Actors Focus Stage Scene Cameras Video Filmmaker Present Moment Video Cameras

Author:Jonas Mekas

“Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.”

People Knows Should Believe Christian Opportunity Games I Believe Christ Steps Stage I Believe In Witness Nba

Author:Stephen Curry

“I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!”

Want Ends Shows Motivational Wanted Night Felt Stuff Sleep Stage Terrible Late Dance Shoes The End Of The Day Get Back Farmers Cows Show Business Sleep Late Milking Cows

Author:Gregory Hines

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