When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life,… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on… — Charlotte Church Copy Share Image
We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
When we came into Woodstock, it was dark and you couldn't really see all the people that were there. We knew it… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup.… — James Carver Copy Share Image
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em,… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
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