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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. -- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage. -- William Shakespeare
The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free. -- Mika
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. -- William Shakespeare
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. -- Harold Clurman
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. -- Oliver Goldsmith
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. -- Arthur Ashe
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. -- William Shakespeare
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx. -- Jamie Foxx
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that. -- Brian Eno
It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it. -- Jason Aldean
We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more. -- Emma Watson
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. -- Elvis Presley
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. -- Judy Garland
Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is. -- Michael Jackson
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -- William Shakespeare
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. -- Ellen Goodman
No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does. -- Lysa TerKeurst
I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere. You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along. -- Graham Moore
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. -- Robert A. Heinlein
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to. -- Buddy Hackett
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements. -- Nelson Mandela
Stage fright is my worst problem. -- Andrea Bocelli
Stage time, stage time, stage time. -- Darren LaCroix
Stage performing is a dying art form. -- Ronnie Spector
Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family. -- Julie Walters
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two? -- Bebe Neuwirth
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Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on. -- Katherine Webb
I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. -- Kenneth Williams
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. -- Jacques Derrida
I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there. -- Hugh Jackman
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood. -- Renee Fleming
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. -- John Adams
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. -- William Powell
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. -- Walter Benjamin
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. -- Harold Bloom
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -- Confucius
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. -- Alan Moore
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. -- Sia Furler
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. -- David Bowie
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. -- Stephen Dillane
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny. -- T. D. Jakes
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. -- Sharon Salzberg
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. -- Marina Abramovic
A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected. -- Laurieann Gibson
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. -- David Bowie
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -- William Shakespeare
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. -- Lee Hall
If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way. -- Derrick Rose
I definitely get stage fright. -- Bridgit Mendler
I do belong on stage. -- Chris Daughtry
The world is my stage. -- Dolly Parton
The stage calls my name. -- Keegan Allen
I'm most comfortable on stage. -- Henry Rollins
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT -- Nicki Minaj
I don't stage my own publicity. -- Lauren Conrad
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
I feel energized walking off stage. -- Marketa Irglova
In live stage, the actor lives. -- Peter Boyle
I have big, big stage fright. -- Andrea Bocelli
The third stage is no thought. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All the world's not a stage. -- Theodor Adorno
The stage is my first love. -- Anthony Mackie
I lost my temper on stage. -- Michael Richards
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. -- H. L. Mencken
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. -- Robert Gottlieb
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. -- Ambrose Bierce
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
Progress is not accomplished in one stage. -- Victor Hugo
Nothing is perfect on the human stage... -- Winston Churchill
My stage show is raw and unpredictable. -- Pink
Trendy is the last stage before tacky. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There is nothing like being on stage. -- Seamus Dever
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago. -- Jeremy Piven
I'll always go back to the stage. -- Nathan Lane
I'm really alive when I'm on stage, -- Rudolf Nureyev
You have to open up on stage. -- Karen O
I never felt I left the stage. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
Put me on stage and I'm happy. -- Mick Ralphs
Being on stage is what I enjoy. -- Debbie Gibson
I'm not a big raised stage fan. -- Tom Bergeron
Get out on the stage of life. -- Cliffie Stone
The stock actor is a stage calamity -- George Bernard Shaw
I prefer stage work, as an actor. -- Robert Sean Leonard
On stage, I am in the dark. -- Maria Callas
When I'm on stage I feel at home -- Ella Fitzgerald
There's something very refreshing about being on stage. -- Paul Reiser
All the world's a stage we're going through. -- Lorrie Moore
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people. -- Ethel Merman
America must always lead on the world stage. -- Barack Obama
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization -- Florence Nightingale
I have never known stage-fright at any time. -- Kate Smith
There's no such thing as an easy stage. -- Vincenzo Nibali
I love to go on stage and sing. -- Henry Rollins
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. -- Charles de Gaulle
The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville. -- Alan Moore
My awkward stage extended well into high school. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. -- Mikhail Lermontov
Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage. -- Mike Birbiglia
The stage is near and dear to me. -- Bela Lugosi
Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage. -- Lleyton Hewitt
Being on stage a lot is quite physical. -- Cate Blanchett
I feel like my home is stage acting. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The foundation for film acting is stage acting. -- James Lipton
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. -- E. J. Hughes
The Internet has become important on the world's stage. -- Steve Crocker
My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. -- Davy Jones
Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible. -- Ana Gasteyer
Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage. -- Mario Cantone
I'm not walking around the stage; I'm not moving. -- Elton John
I've always wanted to perform on the London stage. -- Mimi Rogers
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage. -- Anton Chekhov
I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage. -- John Gimlette

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