Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free."
Stage quotes
Stage
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Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"When I'm on stage I feel at home"
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Love goes through different stages. But it endures."
Dennis Wilson
Musician, Singer
"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
Joan Fontaine
Actress
"I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan."
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"Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life."
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"The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage."
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"I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her."
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"So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked."
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"A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready."
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"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."
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"I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater."
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"The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth."
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"We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke."
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"I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of."
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"The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable."
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"Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost."
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"There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance."
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"You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform."
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"Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time."
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"The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage."
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"Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover."
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"Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey."
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"It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there."
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"For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!"
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