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Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. -- Robert Englund
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. -- Arthur Smith
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. -- Colin Wilson
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. -- Dirk Benedict
Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play. -- John Logan
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. -- Gary Gygax
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product. -- Martin McDonagh
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail. -- Preston Sturges
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 antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. -- David Mamet
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. -- Sam Shepard
Without the heart it's not worship, it's a stage play. -- Stephen Charnock
When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over -- C. S. Lewis
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage. -- James Young
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. -- Oscar Wilde
It was great to play for a live audience on a stage. -- John Lloyd Young
If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something. -- Todd Rundgren
When I play any of the top teams or the top players, it's a stage. -- Mike Conley, Jr.
I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage. -- Adam Levine
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part. -- Morris Lapidus
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. -- Edward Bond
I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. -- Alan Tudyk
I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage. -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic. -- John Patrick Shanley
I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though]. -- Jack Barakat
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. -- K. D. Lang
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage. -- Alan Alda
I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious. -- Peter Steele
I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play. -- Itzhak Perlman
To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing. -- James Blunt
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? -- Stan Lee
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage. -- Bethany Cosentino
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him. -- Roger Kahn
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. -- Paul Theroux
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. -- Robert Browning
Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it. -- Eric Clapton
During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen. -- Virat Kohli
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. -- Hugh Jackman
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop. -- Deborah Tall
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery. -- Karl Shapiro
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. -- Tom Perrotta
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
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. -- Anatole Broyard
They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that. -- Valerie June
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. -- Helen McCrory
It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show. -- Phil Elvrum
I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play. -- Ed Westwick
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. -- Rick Danko
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage. -- Anthony Jeselnik
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. -- Arthur Adamov
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis. -- Andy Gibb
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set Teachers Lounge up. -- Ted Alexandro
To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength. -- Julio Iglesias
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history. -- Dinah Sheridan
I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers. -- Vijay Singh
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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. -- Bill Russell
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.' -- Eric Clapton
I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying. -- Rooney Mara
I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way. -- Hugh Jackman
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite. -- Stephen Charnock
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better. -- Taylor Swift
Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film. -- Ron Moody
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight. -- Anna Godbersen
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch. -- Jean Giraudoux
It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in. -- Jeremy Renner

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