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“The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.”

Art Stage Entertainment Defined Great Men

Author:Robert Morse

“This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.”

Doe Stage Mathematics Method Valuable Conclusion Exhausted Usefulness Deductions

Book:The Decipherment of Linear B

Source: The Decipherment of Linear B

“Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Sometimes Stories Film Stage Scene Very Good Driving Meaning Of Life Helpful Improvisation Just Saying Life Means

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so hard overcoming all of the obstacles to get on the show in the first place and then every week they are judged in front of all of America... I give them complete credit for getting up on stage... I think they deserve all the success that they get.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Hard Shows America Week Stage Fronts Deserve Overcoming Obstacles Credit Judged Idols Discredit American Idol

Author:Mandy Moore

“When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Trying Important Able Stage Materials Type Easier Tired Therapy Routine Monotonous

Author:Pauly Shore

“My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.”

Giving Trying Actors Attitude Stage Directors My Attitude Stage Actors

Author:Anthony Heald

“Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.”

Thinking Years Stage Get Over Fright Stage Fright

Author:Amy Schumer

“Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.”

Thinking Next Too Much Stage Scene Consequence

Author:Jane Goodall

“I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.”

Ifs Want Kind I Can Love Is Brain Creativity Stage Performances Rats Anything And Everything

Author:Dane Cook

“My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.”

“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.”

“I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.”

Sun Stage Cameras Blue Studios Complicated Screens Digital Sequence Composites Digital Cameras

Author:Roland Emmerich

“I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room so badly. Like go up on stage and thrash myself around, go jump into the crowd. You can effing swear, get drunk on stage and do whatever you want basically.”

People Want Shows Love Is Rooms Stage Huge Crowds Drunk Swear Arena Do Whatever You Want Vipers

Author:Avril Lavigne

“I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.”

People Thinking Giving Long Facts Jesus Pay Stage Percent Window Guilty Bombing Humiliating Mics

Author:Bill Burr

“I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.”

Trying Littles Real Actors Community Stage Figures Scene Theater Do The Best

Author:Kurt Fuller

“Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.”

Believe Stage Editing

Author:Linda Conrad

“The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.”

Way Feels Writing Sometimes Stories Stage Creation Paper Hardest Make Sense Quicksand Words On Paper

Author:Linda Conrad

“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.”

Ifs Has Beens United Quality Stage Pride Degrees Various Corruption Profession Kingdoms Journalism Gentleman Remarkable Harbors Incompetence United Kingdom Intelligence Services

Author:Julian Assange

“My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.”

People Problem Enjoy Seeing Stage Leaving Retirement Entertaining

Author:Garth Brooks

“I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it.”

Way Said Important Shows Girl Felt Saws Crazy Stage Disease Late Cameras Reactions Video Youtube Seizures

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.”

Ifs Humans Stage Woods Vulnerable Disconnected

Author:Lady Gaga

“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia

“Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having a sexy image when you are on stage means that you don't love God. No one knows what I'm really like from that. I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair. I'm always so glammed up and so diva on stage and that's what they see. People don't understand that... No one knows my personal relationship with God and it's not up to me to prove that to anyone.”

“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.”

People Firsts Used Four Stage Fronts First Time Nervous Skates Weird Things

Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.

“When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.”

Years Young Fighting Stage Daggers

Author:Suzanne Collins

“SHINee world is strength for me. Because I get strength when I get cheers on the stage.”

World Stage Cheer Shinee

Author:Onew

“I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.”

Feels Enough Stage Goes On Smart Teeth Brushes

Author:Chris Martin

“Were all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? Ive just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.”

Believe Two Shows Games Player Stage Lucky Bigger Blessed Bowls Super Bowl Best Players

Author:Justin Tuck

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)”

People Years Two Stage Objects Behavior Urges Two Years Anarchy Compulsion Primal Two Year Olds Tics Tourettes

Book:Vintage Sacks

Source: Vintage Sacks

“The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.”

Hands Games Ability Stage Skills Balls Lips Aggressive Bowlers

Author:Rahul Dravid

“People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.”

People Thinking Humans Walks Audience Cutting Stage Sick Being Human Entertainers Headache

Author:Karen Carpenter

“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.”

Individual Nations Black Stage Particular Capable Assumption Mainstream Representation Guerrillas

Author:Aberjhani

“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Years Sometimes Hard Facts Film Asks Realizing Secret Stage Truth Is Twenties Theater Ask Me

Author:Lucy Walker

“Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!”

People Thinking Persons Stage Guitar Bob Dylan

Author:Jake Bugg

“This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'”

Said Soul Bigs White Company Seeing Groups Stage Brother Revolution Musical Singers Whirling Dervish

Author:Clive Davis

“He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke”

Men Careers Stage Jokes Unusual Toms Unpredictable

Author:Ken Tucker

“Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.”

Company Stage Investment Valuation Great Company

Author:Ben Horowitz

“A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one.”

Different Home Party Emotion Journey Stage Coming Home Sunrise Chill Session

Author:Tiesto

“Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.”

Trying Looks Different Hard Actors Language Audience Stage Building Architect

Author:David Chipperfield

“I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.”

Want Guy Stage Dresses

Author:Natasha Leggero

“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.”

Play Stories Running Universe Interesting Seeing Conditions Stage Creating Casts Tiny Experiments Laboratory Theatrical Imposing

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.”

Men Years Hands Stage Movement Crucial Linked Banking

Book:Triumph of Conservatism

Source: Triumph of Conservatism

“People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.”

People Thinking Littles Hate Attention Focus Stage Huge Golf Pay Attention Tigers Hate Him

Author:Fred Funk

“Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.”

Writing Art Different Able Wanted Form My Own Stage Theatre Shakes Different Things Shake It Up

Author:Martin McDonagh

“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.”

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Author:Michael Arndt

“I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.”

Littles Ideas Done Bigs Rooms Stage New York Ordinary Theater Tiny Tied Lots Of Money Ordinary Life

Author:Garry Hynes

“I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.”

Children Wanted Used My Own Rooms Audience Stage Fronts My Family Ballerina

Author:Lucy Hawking

“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.”

Writing Character Shows School Used Guy Fun Stage Tvs Scripts Get Up Opera Imaginary Tv Shows Dressings Soap That Guy Dressing Up Soap Operas Writing Scripts

Author:Chris Lilley

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