There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.
The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.
Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.
I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.
Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.