"Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage"
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"It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception."
"The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
"The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms."
"If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage."
"It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in."
"A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered."
"I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage."
"I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me."
"Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."
"I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage."
"I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage."
"All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down."
"He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more."
"Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting."
"I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me."
"Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it."
"To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me."
"I was not naturally meant to be on stage."
"I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright."