“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.” YearsKindPlayActorsSocialStuffDealsAudienceIssuesStageMembersDrivenReally GreatSocial IssuesStage Actors Author:Danny Strong
“I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentFightingStuffEnjoyStageCollegeTrainingScreensCombat Author:Sonequa Martin
“I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.” ThinkingFactsWould BeStuffStageProudMusicianAthleteBeing TrueInjury Author:Paul Stanley
“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.” WantPlayBigsAgeRememberStuffSidesSeeingStageAngelGuitarDustGigsDean Author:Mike Patton
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsKindDifferentCharacterYoungActorsEasyStuffSidesTermRolesComedyStageTheaterKnow MeDifferent DirectionsYoung Actors Author:Andy Garcia
“When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.” WantShowsAbleStuffComedyStage Author:Eddie Murphy
“I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.” YearsMomentsRunningLastsFunStuffBitsWeekStageGoes OnSnowBrandsVarietyLast YearVirginsHandfulBrand NewSpanking Author:Brian Regan
“I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.” StuffActingAudienceStageAspectPaintVisualizingActing OutStage Acting Author:Chris Tucker
“A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.” ShowsStuffOne ThingStageAds Author:Jeff Dunham
“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.” ThinkingWantGivingRealPlayRealityActorsStuffEnvironmentStageHappeningsGreenScreensShootingCaptureReal Stuff Author:Michael Bay
“In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.” TryingLongI CanShowsStuffComedyStageMaterialsCrowdsClubsComedy ClubsOld Stuff Author:Ron White
“If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.” IfsWritingI CanIdeasHappensCertainStuffSeeingStageComicHanging OutStuff Happens Author:Sarah Silverman
“When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do.” KindWantedMotherNightStuffGoalStageNew YorkCollegeMovedActressesDramaticMother NightMadea Author:Rachael Harris
“I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!” WantEndsShowsMotivationalWantedNightFeltStuffSleepStageTerribleLateDanceShoesThe End Of The DayGet BackFarmersCowsShow BusinessSleep LateMilking Cows Author:Gregory Hines
“I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.” WritingHeartMomentsInspirationHappensStuffStageDo The BestImprovising Author:Scot Armstrong
“If I'm playing country, I gotta have my country hat and my cowboy boots. I gotta have a voice, and the third thing, I gotta have I guess a little music to keep me in the right mind, a little pre-show something to get ya going. Lots of AC/DC, or I'll sit on youtube and find all kinds of stuff before we take the stage to get pumped up.” IfsMindKindLittlesCountryShowsStuffVoiceStageThirdsAll KindsHatsBootsCowboyYoutubeCowboy BootMy Cowboy Author:Hank Williams III
“You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.” StuffActingStageCameras Author:Finn Wittrock
“If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.” IfsFeelsI CanSometimesMomentsBodySeemsHappensBeautifulUniverseStuffSoundStageLike YouAtmosphereMeant To BePerformersBeautiful ThingsClicks Author:Ben Lee
“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.” ThinkingKindTogetherIndividualStuffResultsHappenedStageBiggerWitnessCollectivesAlchemy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.” YearsLittlesBookSelfStuffNumbersAudienceStageSellsDollarsSillySellingPocketsCentsPublishingMelbourneSilly Stuff Author:Andy Griffiths
“I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.” WritingHappensStuffWaitingStageJokes 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.” PeopleWantDoneStuffMistakeStageSeniorHiring Author:Sam Altman
“Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.” KnowsUsedGirlNamesStarsStuffKnowingRocksStageClothesNot KnowingRock StarCorsets Author:Julianne Hough
“People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.” PeopleIfsDifferentKidsStuffDealsGroupsStageRelateDifferent TimesHaving KidsSync Author:Jon Hamm
“Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.” StuffStage Author:Al Jarreau
“I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?” ThinkingWritingFacesLawMotherAsksStuffWorryStageNew YorkCircumstancesGunMarkCongressCancerPhrasesEmployeeCourageousBossCowardiceNew York TimesUnthinkableEditorialsGun LawPancreatic Cancer Author:Mindy Kaling
“I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.” PeoplePlayStuffRolesAudienceCrazyStageEntertaining Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“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.” KnowsWritingTryingFirstsStillsWholeHappensStuffProcessStageStrangeHollywoodYeahScriptsBunchBoiling Author:James Wan
“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.” PeopleMadePainGirlStuffLaughingStageBedHusbandBetrayalSavedMy HusbandMailPregnantYour Best Friend Author:Sherri Shepherd
“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.” ThinkingWorldDifferentStuffStageRaisedWho I AmDaddyHighlights Author:Chris Tucker
“Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.” WritingAbleNextNamesStuffMy OwnSunHappenedStagePaperHip HopSavedHipsHops Author:Joell Ortiz
“I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.” KindStuffComedyStageDadRaisedMy DadStoresComedian Author:Pauly Shore
“Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage.” WellsWantedFunStuffBoysStageFrontsPlaying Drums Author:Eddie Montgomery
“I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.” WayFeelsKindImportantActorsStuffTermStage Author:Paul Giamatti
“All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.” IfsHouseStuffRoomsStageClothesControlledFeathersTemperatureStorage Author:Stevie Nicks
“I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.” LooksLittlesStuffBitsNiceStageLittle BitDressesBoatAwardsCeremonyAward Ceremonies Author:Simon Bird
“Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsStillsSometimesMatterReasonWholeHelpingSchoolReadingFunStuffStageFortuneCriticsBlockReason WhyReviewsThrowingLaughedGraduatesGood FortuneJust Do ItGraduate SchoolJoyceFinnegans Wake Author:Toni Morrison
“Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.” PeopleFacesMovingStuffCrazyEffectsStageSevenYour FaceDelayGoing CrazyDance Moves Author:Grimes