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All the world's a stage we're going through.
AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE
Make the stage an actor
Make an actor the stage.
A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.
With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.
get out of your cage and take over your stage
What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere!
Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.
When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.
The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.
The center of the stage is where I am.
At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.
It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
CURTAIN CALL
The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play
All the world's a stage," is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage.
I feel like I own the stage.
A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.
The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.
I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.
When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.
Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.
I do my best creating on stage.
I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.
I do belong on stage.
To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines."
"Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce."
"We need more special effects and dance numbers.
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
You have to open up on stage.
If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
It's not always true that all the world's a stage. Sometimes it's a boxing ring. Right now I had a ringside seat at the Windjammer restaurant in Etonville, New Jersey.
All that matters on the stage is good art.
When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
There is nothing like being on stage.
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.
A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify
I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
There's no such thing as an easy stage.
I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?
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.
Stage performing is a dying art form.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.
All the world is a stage and we are merely players.
Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don't belong to my fans. I don't put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.
On stage, I am in the dark.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.
The stock actor is a stage calamity
The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I'm on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.