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“I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...”

Men Way Body Moving Enjoy Roles Stage Fortunate

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.”

Writing Book Stage Writing A Book Departure Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“I'm like the Hulk on stage. It's way over the top. That's Bizarro Chris. Sometimes I get off stage and go What did I say?! I'll watch one of my stand-up specials a year later and go Eww, that was mean.”

Way Years Mean Sometimes Watches Stage Over The Top

Author:Chris Rock

“There's something very refreshing about being on stage.”

Stage Refreshing

Author:Paul Reiser

“One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.”

People Firsts Looks Stage Wind Comedian Loud Boss Screws

Author:Bob Newhart

“The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.”

Men Important Done Spirit Stage Important Things Spread Mature

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Trying Hard Easy Stage Jokes Comedian

Author:Emo Philips

“Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.”

Ifs Firsts Used Night Laughing Growing Up Growing Stage First Time Comedian One Night

Author:Emo Philips

“Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.”

Ifs Girl Stage Fit Panties

Author:Emo Philips

“The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.”

Feels Real Stage Hardest Being Funny

Author:Greg Giraldo

“I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.”

Ifs Said Done Shows Hands Doubt Stage Fighter

Author:Don Rickles

“People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.”

People Knows Jobs Stage Good Times Having A Good Time Love Of My Life I Love My Life

Author:Dane Cook

“It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.”

People Knows Stills Feelings Night Felt Stage Strange Comfortable Bakers

Author:LaToya Jackson

“When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.”

People Stories Able Film Interesting Effort Morning Groups Stage Picks Wake Up Painter Waking Group Effort

Author:Sean Penn

“A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.”

Thinking Firsts I Can Play Reading Grows Felt Simple Company Careers Stage Mines First Time Sight Theatre Love At First Sight Gang

Author:David Alan Grier

“Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.”

Film Can Do Roles Stage Fit Sexy Passive Chicks Curvy

Author:Nicole Kidman

“One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.”

Stills Energy Results Stage Jew Israel Reports Observers

Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Truth Laughing Know How Stage Making People Laugh

Author:George Lopez

“I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.”

People Knows Shows Bigs Guy Girl Force Watches Study Fans Stage Goes On Police Scare Nuts

Author:Bruno Mars

“I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.”

Thinking Knows Happened Stage Talent Built Management Be Good Drills

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.”

Knows Writing Trying Firsts Stills Whole Happens Stuff Process Stage Strange Hollywood Yeah Scripts Bunch Boiling

Author:James Wan

“I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.”

Long Jobs Stage Long Time Theater Evolve

Author:Kevin Durand

“When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.”

People Want Feelings Together Sound Stage Right Now Most Amazing

Author:Taylor Swift

“It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.”

People Knows Feelings Song Stage Singing Sitting Bedroom Arena Craziest

Author:Taylor Swift

“Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."”

People Knows Problem Actors Talking Stage Preacher No Problem Follow Me Listen To Me

Author:Patrick Fabian

“I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.”

Want Play School Community Stage High School Theater Get Back Schools And Community

Author:Busy Philipps

“Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.”

Feels Wells Fans Stage Huge Perspective Realistic Ballet Center Stage

Author:Amanda Schull

“Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.”

Needs Giving Passion Focus Stage Students Giving Up Adults Focused Pursuit Center Stage

Author:Amanda Schull

“Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."”

Way Trying I Can Play Stage Band Okay Notes Mates Bass

Author:Alison Pill

“With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really involved with the beginning stages of it. Art is something that I haven't really put out to the public. There's a couple pictures on MySpace, but I haven't done a gallery opening or anything like that. Art is very personal to me. I haven't really shared it with too many people.”

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Author:Tinsel Korey

“You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.”

Trying Different Break Focus One Thing Week Crazy Stage Development Couple Tasks Spinning Stages Of Development Focus On One Thing

Author:Justin Theroux

“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.”

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Author:Planningtorock

“I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.”

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Author:Austin Butler

“Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.”

Way Years Mean School Realizing Attention Influence Stage Huge Band Red I Realized Sense Of Humor Looking Back Sly Demeanor

Author:Jello Biafra

“When I was little - like in preschool - I was very shy, but whenever I went on stage I just exploded. Ever since then I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Music has always been a part of me, music is my passion.”

Littles Wanted Passion Stage Music Is Shy My Passion Preschool Music Is My Passion

Author:Manika

“I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.”

Knows Rocks Stage Ready Let Me Stomach Butterfly I Get Butterflies Butterflies In My Stomach

Author:Manika

“They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.”

Want Care Boys One Thing Stage Don't Care Rap Rap Music

Author:Ad-Rock

“When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.”

Stage Goes On Comfortable

Author:Teddy Pendergrass

“All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.”

Feelings Waiting Week Stage Angry Horrible Waiting Around

Author:Jay Mohr

“With me being in so many pain from when you have a betrayal from your best friend - who was my husband - and the girl got pregnant, I couldn't even get out of bed. The only thing that saved me was my stand-up. I would get on stage and just talk about stuff, and I made people laugh. A lot of women e-mail me and say, 'How do you smile? How do you laugh at something like this?' That's how I do it. I laugh because that's how I get through pain.”

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Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.”

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Author:Franklyn Ajaye

“Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.”

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Author:Bo Burnham

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.”

Thinking World Different Stuff Stage Raised Who I Am Daddy Highlights

Author:Chris Tucker

“I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.”

Stills Fall Stage Hair Starting Stuck Awkward Maintaining Acne

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.”

Knows Trying Moments Walks Stage Deeper Microphones

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”

Watches Subjects Stage Photography Photographer Command Impulse Visible Stage Directions

Book:The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film

Source: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film

“I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the Dallas Comedy Corner where I honed my skills by watching guys like Garry Shandling, Robin Williams, Jay Lena and more.”

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Author:Bill Engvall

“I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.”

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Author:Nina Dobrev

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