Best Onstage Thoughts
380 Onstage quotes by 322 unique authors
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I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.
— Jared Harris
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There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in…
— Cheryl James
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I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing,…
— John Barrowman
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I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has…
— Ned Beauman
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It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of…
— Norbert Leo Butz
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I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing…
— Norbert Leo Butz
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I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I…
— Aloe Blacc
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If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
— Eric Bana
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I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have…
— Meredith Brooks
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't…
— Samantha Bee
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If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front…
— Enrico Colantoni
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I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think…
— Eric Church
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I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.
— Colbie Caillat
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a…
— Patrick Carney
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Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for…
— Pauline Collins
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell…
— Aaron Carter
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I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or…
— James Badge Dale
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Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great…
— Charles S. Dutton
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Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
— Donald Glover
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When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me…
— Troy Garity
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I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I…
— Billy Gardell
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Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on…
— Billy Gardell
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Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for…
— Jamie Campbell Bower
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I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please…
— Jeffrey Combs
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I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation,…
— Melanie Chisholm
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