“Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.” PeopleYearsDifferentFunActingCareersWatchesBloodStageMeeting New People Author:Clint Eastwood
“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.” MenMatterAgeWatchesGoneOur LivesStageSceneStrangerToneTouchedWhat MattersReversal Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.” IfsBelieveAgeGivenWatchesStageFrontsComfortableDown AndAgingOld AgePleasantSeatsBelieve In MeSpectators Author:Jane Ellen Harrison
“What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.” PeopleMenFeelsPersonsWatchesStageMen And WomenScreensAttractiveCompelledTrust MeMagnetism Author:Amanda Schull
“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.” ThinkingKindHas BeensJobsRememberNightNextMemoriesWatchesFiveChildhoodMinutesStageReadyGoes OnOpeningMake SenseQueensMumSpainSchizophrenicVomitingOpening Night Author:Javier Bardem
“On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.” WatchesAudienceStageDirectorsFixedViewpoints Author:Bruce Beresford
“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.” PeopleWayMindShowsSeemsWould BeFeltInterestingAcceptingWatchesStageFoolInteresting Ways Author:Fiona Apple