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'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. ~ Jason Fuchs
Stage Acting quotes by Jason Fuchs
In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. ~ Marlon Brando
Stage Acting quotes by Marlon Brando
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage. ~ Stella Adler
Stage Acting quotes by Stella Adler
The foundation for film acting is stage acting. ~ James Lipton
Stage Acting quotes by James Lipton
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist. ~ Constantin Stanislavski
Stage Acting quotes by Constantin Stanislavski
In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time. ~ Fred Melamed
Stage Acting quotes by Fred Melamed
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. ~ Miranda Richardson
Stage Acting quotes by Miranda Richardson
I learned acting by doing it. And although I had never taken an acting class, it didn't take long to learn how to be on the stage. All you have to do is to be humiliated in front of an audience a few times. If you don't like being humiliated publicly, you learn how to act. ~ Ron Vawter
Stage Acting quotes by Ron Vawter
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. ~ Michael Caine
Stage Acting quotes by Michael Caine
I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage. ~ Ian McKellen
Stage Acting quotes by Ian McKellen
All the world's a stage. ~ William Shakespeare
Stage Acting quotes by William Shakespeare
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow. ~ Charles Durning
Stage Acting quotes by Charles Durning
I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.' ~ Sascha Radetsky
Stage Acting quotes by Sascha Radetsky
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. ~ Eli Wallach
Stage Acting quotes by Eli Wallach
Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.] ~ William Shakespeare
Stage Acting quotes by William Shakespeare
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing. ~ Mara Wilson
Stage Acting quotes by Mara Wilson
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting. ~ Denis Lavant
Stage Acting quotes by Denis Lavant
006 [6.1] "Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding. [6.2-4] "When you do something for someone else, don't call attention to yourself. You've seen them in action, I'm sure - 'playactors' I call them - treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds. They get applause, true, but that's all they get. When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. Just do it - quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out. ~ Eugene H. Peterson
Stage Acting quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ~ Fred Melamed
Stage Acting quotes by Fred Melamed
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history,
is second childishness and mere oblivion.
I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. ~ William Shakespeare
Stage Acting quotes by William Shakespeare
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing. ~ Brian Blessed
Stage Acting quotes by Brian Blessed
At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way. ~ Gelsey Kirkland
Stage Acting quotes by Gelsey Kirkland
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it. ~ Henry B. Eyring
Stage Acting quotes by Henry B. Eyring
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen. ~ Eddie Redmayne
Stage Acting quotes by Eddie Redmayne
In the toils of orgasm - she said, she said - she'd be whelmed in a warm green sea through which, dulled by the murk of it, pass a series of small suns like the footlights of a revolving stage, an electric carousel wheeling in a green ether. Envy's color is the color of her pleasuring, and what is the color of grief? Is it black as they say? And anger always red? The color of that sad shade of ennui called blue is blue but blue unlike the sky or sea, a bitter blue, rue-tinged, discolored at the edges. The color of a blind man's noon is white, and is his nighttime too? And does he feel it with his skin like a fish? Does he have blues, are they bridal and serene, or yellows, sunlike or urinous, does he remember? Neural colors like the fleeting tones of dreams. The color of this life is water. ~ Cormac McCarthy
Stage Acting quotes by Cormac McCarthy
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job. ~ Nina Conti
Stage Acting quotes by Nina Conti
We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country. ~ Chris Christie
Stage Acting quotes by Chris Christie
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. ~ Michael Caine
Stage Acting quotes by Michael Caine
My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people. ~ Psy
Stage Acting quotes by Psy
A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and not a little matter, whether we regard its pleasures or its pains. To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say, a man never was young because he has grown old, or never lived because he is now dead. The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it, nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone that is added to it. It is neither the first nor last hour of our existence, but the space that parts these two - not our exit nor our entrance upon the stage, but what we do, feel, and think while there - that we are to attend to in pronouncing sentence upon it. ~ William Hazlitt
Stage Acting quotes by William Hazlitt
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability. ~ Kenny Smith
Stage Acting quotes by Kenny Smith
The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of Liberation, at which there is no more suffering. That's genuine, lasting happiness. True happiness relates more to the mind and heart. Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Stage Acting quotes by Dalai Lama XIV
All around him during the war, Ciro saw men lie, engage in acts of cowardice, create feeble attachments to women, only to leave them - men acting in pursuit of their own comforts, men behaving without grace. And ~ Adriana Trigiani
Stage Acting quotes by Adriana Trigiani
Evictions were deserved, understood to be the outcome of individual failure. They "helped get rid of the riffraff," some said. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

In years past, renters opposed landlords and saw themselves as a "class" with shared interests and a unified purpose. During the early twentieth century, tenants organized against evictions and unsanitary conditions. When landlords raised rents too often or too steeply, tenants went so far as to stage rent strikes. Strikers joined together to withhold rent and form picket lines, risking eviction, arrest, and beatings by hired thugs. They were not an especially radical bunch, these strikers. Most were ordinary mothers and fathers who believed landlords were entitled to modest rent increases and fair profits, but not "price gouging." In New York City, the great rent wars of the Roaring Twenties forced a state legislature to impose rent controls that remain the country's strongest to this day.

Petitions, picket lines, civil disobedience - this kind of political mobilization required a certain shift in vision. ~ Matthew Desmond
Stage Acting quotes by Matthew Desmond
I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession. ~ Zeljko Ivanek
Stage Acting quotes by Zeljko Ivanek
No; the charm is worked by common sense, and the spell can only be broke by your acting stupidly. ~ Thomas Hardy
Stage Acting quotes by Thomas Hardy
Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way. ~ Pierre Boulez
Stage Acting quotes by Pierre Boulez
I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older. ~ Jonah Hill
Stage Acting quotes by Jonah Hill
I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it. ~ Victor Mature
Stage Acting quotes by Victor Mature
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Stage Acting quotes by Charles Spurgeon
Intersectionality means being aware of and acting on the fact that different forms of prejudice are connected, because they all stem from the same root of being 'other', 'different' or somehow 'secondary' to the 'normal', 'ideal' status quo. ~ Laura Bates
Stage Acting quotes by Laura Bates
Nice enough?" he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. "Did you just call my kiss 'nice enough'? ~ Kylie Scott
Stage Acting quotes by Kylie Scott
Tony the Beat Poet says the church is like a wounded animal these days. He says we used to have power and influence, but now we don't, and so many of our leaders are upset about this and acting like spoiled children, mad because they can't have their way. They disguise their actions to look as though they are standing on principle, but it isn't that, Tony says, it's bitterness. They want to take their ball and go home because they have to sit the bench. Tony and I agree that what God wants to do is sit the bench in humility and turn the other cheek like Gandhi, like Jesus. We decided that the correct place to share our faith was from a place of humility and love, not from a desire for power. ~ Donald Miller
Stage Acting quotes by Donald Miller
I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career. ~ Norman Fell
Stage Acting quotes by Norman Fell
I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career. ~ Christina Milian
Stage Acting quotes by Christina Milian
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas. ~ Julius Genachowski
Stage Acting quotes by Julius Genachowski
I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting. ~ Georgia Groome
Stage Acting quotes by Georgia Groome
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage. ~ Jimi Hendrix
Stage Acting quotes by Jimi Hendrix
In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous. ~ Cillian Murphy
Stage Acting quotes by Cillian Murphy
I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately. ~ John Gimlette
Stage Acting quotes by John Gimlette
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength. ~ Julio Iglesias
Stage Acting quotes by Julio Iglesias
..the power outage caused the stage manager to drop the curtain - much to the surprise of Ronnie Wood, who was standing directly underneath it at the time and was almost killed by about half a ton of falling velvet (because, let me tell you, in those days a curtain was a curtain.) It was while we were backstage, getting the power restored, that I noticed I had spent the entire opening number with my flies undone. ~ Rod Stewart
Stage Acting quotes by Rod Stewart
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. ~ Mae West
Stage Acting quotes by Mae West
I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. ~ Bob Balaban
Stage Acting quotes by Bob Balaban
It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money. It's much easier to make money, because it's a much easier way to measure success - the bottom line. When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. Why not use an entrepreneurial, rather than a bureaucratic, approach. As long as people genuinely care for the people they're trying to help, they can actually do a lot of good. ~ George Soros
Stage Acting quotes by George Soros
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors. ~ Patrick Macnee
Stage Acting quotes by Patrick Macnee
Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops. ~ Lisa Lampanelli
Stage Acting quotes by Lisa Lampanelli
I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on. ~ Carrie Preston
Stage Acting quotes by Carrie Preston
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