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“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
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“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.”
― Cassie Draws the Universe
― Cassie Draws the Universe
“Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( " Homeless down in the corner")”
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“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"
Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.
Really?"
I'm in for it.
Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.”
― Wondrous Strange
Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.
Really?"
I'm in for it.
Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.”
― Wondrous Strange
“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
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“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.”
― Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
― Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.”
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“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”
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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“Honest to God, this is the absolute best kind of moment. The auditorium lights are off except for ones over the stage, and we're all bright eyed and giggle-drunk. I fall a little bit in love with everyone.”
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)"
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]”
― As You Like It
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]”
― As You Like It
“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.”
― Every You, Every Me
― Every You, Every Me
“In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“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.”
― Envy
― Envy
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
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“With God, brokenness is nothing more than the stage upon which the impossible is about to happen.”
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“The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.”
― The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays
― The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays
“It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.”
― Home to Holly Springs
― Home to Holly Springs
“Going on stage always felt like being shot out of a cannon. My stomach would tighten as I got closer to the backstage area. You wondered why you put yourself through all the stress. Then BOOM! You're on, adrenalin pumping, and thinking: "THIS is why I do it!”
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“Proscenium Panther by Stewart Stafford
The actor missed his line,
Whispers from the wings,
Deafening silence hanging,
Another cue came briskly.
A pregnant pause of years,
The frozen player’s lips moved,
Offstage, a mock post-mortem,
The thespian grinned impishly.
After the audience’s first line laugh,
He racked his brain for more jokes,
Flouting the text and all the cast,
O, limelight, of hot-headed hydras.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
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The actor missed his line,
Whispers from the wings,
Deafening silence hanging,
Another cue came briskly.
A pregnant pause of years,
The frozen player’s lips moved,
Offstage, a mock post-mortem,
The thespian grinned impishly.
After the audience’s first line laugh,
He racked his brain for more jokes,
Flouting the text and all the cast,
O, limelight, of hot-headed hydras.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
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“We had to put on masks and play pretend 24/7, thus making me feel as though I was on the stage long before I was on an actual stage. We were the living embodiment of the Shakespeare quote 'The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players' and not in a good way.”
― Life is Staged: A Memoir on Finding Myself in High School Theater
― Life is Staged: A Memoir on Finding Myself in High School Theater
“Stages can be set anywhere and if they are set right, people won't even know that they are part of a play.”
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