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Stage Quotes - Page 5

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

"Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

"Blues guitarist Buddy Guy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 7, 2012.

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.

"This much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2008.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

"The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

Craig Groeschel (2013). “Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are”, p.14, Zondervan

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.242, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press