“And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!…provided I can memorize the lines.” — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer. — George MacKay Copy Share Image
“If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere!” — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager. — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg. — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
“And now, the bane of your existence, the killer of all joys, the Stage Manager-” — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
My family went to see a pantomime called 'Give a Dog a Bone' when I was about five. My aunt was the… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,'… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“At first this quality of hers somehow irritated Amory. He considered his own uniqueness sufficient, and it rather embarrassed him when she… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“About the time he threatened her nose with his finger, Peaseblossom lost her grip on the situation with the boys. The door… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
“..the power outage caused the stage manager to drop the curtain - much to the surprise of Ronnie Wood, who was standing… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“I remember standing in the wings when Mother’s voice cracked and went into a whisper. The audience began to laugh and sing… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the… — John Kander Copy Share Image
I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I've been lucky enough… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“Peaseblossom-decorous, proper Peaseblossom-dropped her trousers to waggle her naked, pale bottom at the Stage Manager. Bertie laughed involuntarily, choked on her coffee,… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
I dont know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Every day try to help uplift physically, mentally, or spiritually suffering people, as you would help yourself or your family. If, instead… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“We stood in the wings together, side by side. Reed's mouth was still agape. "It makes sense when you think about it,"… — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
