“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.” TryingLinesActingStepsAudienceEffectsStageMonthsPerformancesTheaterImprovementRepetitionReciting Author:Alfred Molina
“When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.” WayActionSpeakSportsStepsStageNewsEdgesEnormousThrownHeadlinesLiving OnEvery StepLife Or DeathWords You SpeakLiving On The EdgeEvery Step You Take Author:Boris Becker
“I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.” KnowsTryingRealStepsStageGranted Author:Joyce DiDonato
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.” TwoLostStepsGoneStageTravelFunny TravelBest FriendLost FriendshipLost FriendLosing FriendsDeath Of A FriendLosing Friendship Author:Aristophanes
“You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.” KnowsNightStepsMinutesStageBallsBathroomSpotlightGood NightEvery Second Author:Frank Sinatra
“Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.” ActionStepsStageConcernedPerformancesPlanningVagueDoers Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.” PeopleShowsFacesFunEnjoyStepsAudienceMinutesStageAnxietyHaving Fun Author:Thalia
“I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals” StepsStageDivingPedals Author:Kurt Cobain
“You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.” CompassionStepsStageHumilityIntegrityPurityService To Others Author:Frederick Lenz
“Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.” WayLongSufferingActorsChallengesStepsStageFieldsReadyLong TimeAthleteInjuryThrownMassivePreparingMovie Sets Author:Dwayne Johnson
“When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.” ThinkingKnowsWantMomentsLosesStepsMinutesStage Author:Michael Jackson
“Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.” PersonsStepsStagePerformers Author:Mick Jagger
“acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.” IfsWantArtSelfStepsStageAcceptanceRemainsSelf Respect Author:Ethel Smyth
“Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.” WantLooksTwoCharacterHelpingThreeStepsStageDirectorsBenefitsPagesIntentionDimensionsDistrustObjectivityConceitBetter Than YouTherapistsCollaboratorsThree Dimensions Author:Donald Margulies
“I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.” ThinkingTryingReasonLife IsArtistMy OwnStepsStageIncrediblesSolo Author:Nick Jonas
“Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.” FactsNightGivenStepsStageMastersHugeTheaterHonestlyBoardsMatched Author:Chris Pine
“When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.” StepsAudienceLaughingStageSilent Author:Aubrey Plaza
“Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!” WorldLittlesLongRememberLostStepsStageMinesHeroMusicalTreasureFinestHonoredEntertainersJimmyDickensRest In PeaceLost OnesGreatest Treasure Author:Charlie Daniels
“Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveChristianOpportunityGamesI BelieveChristStepsStageI Believe InWitnessNba Author:Stephen Curry
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.” FeelingsRealizingWonderStepsStruggleShareChildhoodStageAcceptancePrejudiceRelationBlindPossessionToleranceBitterSpotsSignificanceWombRace RelationsInfancyEmbryosBlind Spots Author:Sarah-Patton Boyle
“15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.” IfsTryingLooksStepsStageDancingIllIllnessMental IllnessImitatingMentally Ill Author:Thom Yorke
“If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.” PeopleIfsWorldWayTryingPersonsCountryLevelsLeaderStepsEnemyStageMilitaryCapacityIncreaseClintonDebtWorld LeaderWedges Author:Benjamin Carson
“That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.” KindBookHappensUniverseForceGoalStepsAliveWrittenStageHonestlyVulnerableImperfectMentalityJust Being Author:Dan Mangan
“I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesSoulUseRunningCertainBitsNaturalStepsAudienceNiceStageFitLittle BitInstrumentsConnectedMy SoulPianoPerformersAnchorsMicrophones Author:Sara Bareilles
“"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore.” NeedsNightSongAnimalStepsStageSlaveMy FavoriteDefenseSwingsEvery NightRemindersRelentlessArmorHinderAnthemFavorite Song Author:Andrew Ripp
“I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.” IfsKnowsPoliticalWhiteStepsOpinionStageMalesStatements Author:W. Kamau Bell
“And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.” IfsStepsStageFrontsMirrorsGet AwayTemporaryMeaningless Author:Neil Young