Best stage & done Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.”

Done Kids Passion Enjoy Stage Performing Performing On Stage

Author:Haley Reinhart

“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'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.”

Feels Kind Done Actors Acting Stage Happenings Dear Eight Glad Islands Riding Hanging On Cyclones Dear Life Coney Island

Author:Fred Melamed

“I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.”

Knows Long Different Done Together Know How Pieces Stage Shots Speed Faster Filmmaker Etc Exposure Procedures

Author:Jonas Mekas

“No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.”

People Knows Persons Stills Matter Done Dream Magic Stage Mets Comfortable Your Dreams Where You Are Supportive Lottery Whatever Works

Author:Michelle Chamuel

“It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.”

Done Stage Sake Screens Bother Devices Nudity

Author:Lara Pulver

“All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.”

Done Stage Jail Rapper Jail Time

Author:Natasha Leggero

“Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.”

People Done Philosophy Study Stage Contemporary

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.”

“I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.”

Thinking Want Feels Long Stills I Can Done Wanted Fighting Goal Black Sleep Knowing Stage Harder Feel Good Dancer Principal Black Women Sleeping Beauty Aurora

Author:Misty Copeland

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.”

Way Should Done Stage Missing Members Should Have Silent Casts Horrible Witness My Way Garments Gowns

Author:Dorothy Parker

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.”

Want Years Done Stage Theater

Author:Andy Serkis

“At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“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 feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.”

Feels Done Artist Stage Responsible Originals Singers Copies Meaningless Guitarist

Author:Miyavi

“When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.”

Ifs Thinking World Done Enough Young Our Lives Trouble Stage Particular Drama Mouths Spread My Time Foam Rant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”

“A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.”

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Author:Anthony Hecht

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“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

“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

“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'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

“By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.”

Ifs Done Character Stage Projects Pitching Main Characters Contractor

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready to move from a material to a transcendent world view of culture. I'm only articulating what dwells in the consciousness of a good part of the masses now. That's why the response.”

World Done Moving Culture Views Consciousness Stage Ready Materials Mass Response Transcendent World View Articulating

Author:James Redfield

“If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”

Ifs Believe Persons Done Young I Believe Stage Planets Right Now Plant Capture Construction Carbon Coal Disobedience Civil Disobedience Being Done

Author:Al Gore

“I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.”

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Author:Lou Doillon

“I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It can damage successful writers by giving them an exalted sense of what they've done, and it can crush less successful writers by infecting them with envy and malice at an early stage in their careers.”

Giving Important Done Felt Community Careers Successful Stage Envy Damage Crush Malice Exalted Detrimental

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!”

Thinking Men Needs Heart Done Dies Stage Disease Research Doctors Males Come Up Speed Rats Heart Disease

Author:Laura Bush

“When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth; this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.”

World Humans Done Spiritual Growth Realizing Human Beings Growing Up Growing Stage This World Emotional Equal Importance Free Will

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.”

Knows Writing Done Play Light Know How Stage Theater Woods Nails Canvas

Book:Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

Source: Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

“Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.”

People Thinking Looks Done Courses Born Church Views Stage Ought Drama Judgment Hatred Theater Harm Attraction Driven Burning Ministers Look Up Persecution Rivals

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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

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Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“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

“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

“When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.”

People Way Trying Firsts I Can Done Moments Shows Happens Certain Next Bits Audience Stage Dying Type Jokes Performing Repeats One Time

Author:J. B. Smoove

“I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.”

Done Song Share Stage Starting Compare Etc Tripping Tripping Over

Author:Amanda Stott

“I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“When we got to Steamboat, we were on that big stage at five in the afternoon, and it was almost at capacity. I told my guys 'no matter what we've done to get to this point, no matter what lows, what highs, right now we are here and we've got a point to prove." It was probably one of my most memorable performances thus far.”

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Author:Cody Johnson

“There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.”

“As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It's the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don't know how it has been done. That's the kind of magical transposition that is art.”

Thinking Knows Kind Has Beens Art Done Reality Happens Order Fiction Know How Stage Actresses Contrary

Author:Ludivine Sagnier

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