Stage Quotes - Page 16

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

The stage calls my name.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

There are many stages of grief.

It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.