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“I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.”

“You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.”

“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Sometimes Play Together Reading Actors Records Cutting Doors Stage Scripts Don't Trust Stage Directions

Author:Al Pacino

“I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.”

Different Play Film Certain Stage Demand Comfortable Concerned Holding Back

Author:Al Pacino

“Love goes through different stages. But it endures.”

Different Stage Endure

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“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.”

Way Stage Happenings My Way Coping Escaping

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.”

People Ifs Thinking World Art Self Care Stage Don't Care Destructive Loathing Self Loathing Self Destructive Misinterpreted Misanthropic

Author:Marilyn Manson

“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.”

Ifs Want Use Form Sound One Thing Stage Shapes Performances Atmosphere Imagery

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.”

Form Next Stage Terrified Stages Of Life

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.”

Use Middle Stage Late Available Mentor

Author:John Wooden

“I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.”

Writing Trying Wells Littles Stills Fall Boys Magic Stage Decided Performances Tricks Get Up Fake Magician Little Boys Mustache

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.”

World Done Bigs Actors Opportunity Class Stage Higher Theater Pool World Class Grabbing Stage Actors

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.”

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Author:Blythe Danner

“I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.”

People Firsts Wanted White Childhood Stage Various Obsession Harlem Globetrotters

Author:Johnny Depp

“I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.”

War Today Film Stage Resources Aging Cream Surgery Pills Cosmetics Cosmetic Surgery

Author:Roman Polanski

“People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.”

People Wells Long Stage News Sells Depressing Getting Along

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.”

Writing Play Whole Actors Audience Stage Involved Bottom Casts

Author:Jules Feiffer

“I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.”

People Knows Voice Rooms Stage Sitting Figuring It

Author:Mike Patton

“I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells I Can Shows Sleep Stage Battle Get Real Energetic Hyper Can't Sleep Drained I Can't Sleep

Author:Charlyne Yi

“Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.”

Knows Feels Trying Sometimes Done Turns Causes Audience Know How Impossible Stage Drained Trying Everything

Author:Charlyne Yi

“I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.”

Ifs I Can Humor Funny Guy Speak Rooms Stage Right Now Empty Blow Tonight Empty Stage

Author:Bill Hicks

“I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.”

“Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.”

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Author:Anne Akiko Meyers

“I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.”

People Feelings Care Stage Crowds Don't Care Concerts

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.”

Real Self Able Fans Stage Goes On Good Things Awkward Dorky

Author:Tori Kelly

“When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.”

Want Giving Writing Energy Emotion Morning Stage Materials Goes On Wake Up

Author:Matthew Hussey

“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

Firsts Kind Seems School Rocks Stage Huge Band High School Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters Lame Rock Bands

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.”

Writing Happens Stuff Waiting Stage Jokes

Author:Kathleen Madigan

“In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.”

People Want Done Stuff Mistake Stage Senior Hiring

Author:Sam Altman

“I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.”

Real Kids Passion Attention Laughing Stage Adults Performing Bugs Goofy

Author:Tom Green

“It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.”

Way Feels Writing Moments Natural Stage Strange Get Up Isolated Fulfilment

Author:Alexi Murdoch

“What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.”

Feelings Rooms Common Audience Share Stage Collectives Concerts Performers Uniting

Author:Joel Plaskett

“The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".”

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Author:Joel Plaskett

“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.”

Music Stage Addicted To Music

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.”

Want Writing Feelings Voice Stage Pure Embrace Privilege Crafts Revision Drafting

Author:David Starkey

“I am just trying to die on the stage just as simple as that. I just like going in man. Just give it my all and enjoy it.”

Men Giving Trying Dies Enjoy Simple Stage

Author:Wretch 32

“I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.”

Way Eye Effort Stage Landscape Atmosphere Lighting Seeming

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world.”

World Different Moments Next Stage East Riding Fascination Different Worlds Carts Transfiguration Brighton John Smith

Author:Robert Dessaix

“In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.”

Knows Moments Seeing Stage Tvs Theatre Video

Author:Robert Dessaix

“Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.”

People Ifs Shows Mistake Stage Apologizing

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges.”

Knows Writing Form Emotion Stage Shapes Notion Vague Scrap

Author:Michael Longley

“I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.”

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Author:Darius McCrary

“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.”

People Knows Writing Moments Artist Stage Creation Musician Studios Artistic That Moment Closest True Artists Artistic Creation

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.”

Way Real Can Do Stage Photography Digital

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.”

Knows World Firsts Feelings Stage Missing First Time

Author:Kurupt

“I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.”

Thinking Made Today Careers Stage Regret Who I Am No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Kurupt

“You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.”

Thinking Artist Stage Rapper Translate Phenomenal Technicians Emcee

Author:Joell Ortiz

“If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.”

People Ifs Wells Perfect Opinion Stage Interviews Persona Well Rounded Emcee

Author:Joell Ortiz

“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.”

“I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.”

Source: The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

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