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Stage Quotes by David Mamet
- Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character…
- At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will…
- A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the…
More Stage Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. — Arthur Ashe
- I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It… — Aaliyah
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. — Eric Bana
- I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all… — Roseanne Barr
- I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. — Syd Barrett
- Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin.… — Ethel Barrymore
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
- Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me. — Victoria Beckham