Best stage & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.”

Knows Firsts One Thing Stage First Time Quitting June I Quit

Author:George Lopez

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

Firsts Film Crazy Stage Dad Shots Universal My Dad Studios Credit Actresses Grandmother Forty Contracts My Grandmother Universal Studios

Author:Chris Pine

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.”

Firsts Special Stage Majors Musical Special To Me Evita

Author:Elaine Paige

“I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.”

Firsts Attention Stage First Time Seven Nine Just Being

Author:Gemma Ward

“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

People Knows Firsts May Play Film Roles Stage Comfortable Theater Wings Screens Know Me First Love

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“The stage is my first love.”

Firsts Stage First Love

Author:Anthony Mackie

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.”

Firsts Meditation Stage Conscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."”

Firsts Stage First Time Ballet Verification

Author:Misty Copeland

“I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Lasts Opportunity Stage Approach First Time Last Time

Author:Misty Copeland

“People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.”

People Firsts Said Important Ideas Change Interesting Four Stage Development Waste Revolutionary My Time Nonsense Good Ideas Wasting My Time Don't Waste My Time

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.”

Firsts May Bits Process Cutting Stage Paper Draws Paint Spontaneous Collages

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.”

Years Firsts Age Stage New York First Time Fairs Performing Brooklyn Performing Music Brooklyn New York

Author:Theophilus London

“It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.”

Firsts May Happens Three Courses Games Winning Race Week Stage Surprise Incredibles Sunday Retiring Commonwealth Emma Climbers Rosa Lining Up Commonwealth Games

Author:Emma Pooley

“It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.”

Years Firsts Important Hard Creative Stage Example Benefits Destruction Rate Wave Enormous Rail Deregulation Creative Destruction

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.”

Men Firsts Self Stage All Things Self Respect Reverence

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.”

Firsts Government Political Three Stage Military Revolution Periods Program Decided Thirds Defined Preparation Mature Procedures Thorough Deliberation Constitutional Government Tutelage

Author:Sun Yat-sen

“Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.”

Firsts Might Christian Church Forever Stage Tears Appearance Repentance Adultery Assembly Unqualified

Author:Joseph Addison

“Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.”

World Firsts Looks States Strong Results Effort Achieve Stage Agency Disappoint

Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.”

Ifs Firsts Stills Moving Force Views Stage Creation Evolution Built Strive Kingdoms Moving Forward Strife Progression

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.”

Years Firsts Art Artist Actors Stage Students Poet Moved University I Realized California Performers Deaf Festivals Signing Moved On Interpreting Interpreter Coordinating I Moved On

Author:Jack Jason

“In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.”

Firsts Art Country Attitude Stage Proud Worship Theater Our Country Rebellion March Contempt Mediocrity Rooted Disgusting Vulgarity Suffocating Manifestos Snobbish

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Different Character Young Actors Easy Stuff Sides Term Roles Comedy Stage Theater Know Me Different Directions Young Actors

Author:Andy Garcia

“It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.”

Years Firsts Might Three Games Stage Six Golf Starting Three Years Golfers Unlearn

Author:Walter Hagen

“I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.”

Years Firsts Bigs Remember Found Father Laughing Heard Stage Laughter Gold Down And Radio Ugly Checks Fantastic Pantomime

Author:Michael Caine

“To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.”

Years Firsts Long Play America Stage Tradition Legacy Make Sense Epic Festivals Iconic Dance Music Woodstock

Author:Steve Aoki

“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.”

People Firsts Littles Said Character Bigs Guy Enjoy Answers Doors Stage Brother Mets Band Died Moved Legends Excess Brothers And Sisters Garage Legendary Hendrix

Author:Alice Cooper

“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.”

“I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Energy Stage Theater Nine First Love

Author:Tracie Thoms

“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”

Feels Firsts Left Music Careers Stage First Time Concerts Fright Nervousness Stage Fright

Author:Pablo Casals

“It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.”

Trying Firsts Shows Running Challenges Stage Music Is Tasks Notes Focused Routine Kansas

Author:Phil Ehart

“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.”

Want Writing Years Firsts Play Character Might Lasts Actors Stage Particular Months Six Originals Productions Six Months

Author:Neil Simon

“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.”

Way Want Writing Firsts Persons Book Different Actors Stage Materials Elements Thirds Bigger Dramatic Pulling Presentation First Person Third Person

Author:Brian Greene

“There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.”

Firsts Self Three Stage Thirds Revelations Evident

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.”

People Years Firsts Two Hard Laughing Worst Stage Fronts Broke Hard Times Two Years

Author:Bill Maher

“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens I Can Wanted School Young Passion Can Do Acting Minutes Stage High School First Time Doctors Theater My Passion Freshman Day Life I Can Do This

Author:Sophia Bush

“While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.”

Thinking Firsts War Force Goal Powerful Stage Fronts Victory Finals Operations Accomplished Reaching Soviet Troops Sober Strategic Entrances Armed Forces Disregarded Infusion

Author:Ivan Bagramyan

“No product is an island. A product is more than the product. It is a cohesive, integrated set of experiences. Think through all of the stages of a product or service - from initial intentions through final reflections, from first usage to help, service, and maintenance. Make them all work together seamlessly. That's systems thinking.”

Thinking Firsts Helping Together Stage Products Reflection Intention Finals Islands Working Together Initials Integrated Maintenance Usage Systems Thinking

Author:Donald A. Norman

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

Firsts Whole Stage Couple Becoming Concepts Excited Comedian Being Funny Angling Becoming One

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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.

“Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.”

“In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.”

Knows Firsts Stage Cry Materials Goes On Letters Dear Fishes Comedian Odd Guts Dear John

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

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