The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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.
I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
