"The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right."
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"I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white."
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"Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now."
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"Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad."
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"I'm most comfortable on stage."
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"I love to go on stage and sing."
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"With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at."
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"I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties."
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"I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage."
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"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."
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"Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me."
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"War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life."
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"It was great to play for a live audience on a stage."
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"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."
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"I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home."
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"I have a lot of experience in playing all sorts of venues. And one of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another. You can't fully measure or calculate these things, yet they are absolutely evident once you're on stage."
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"I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform."
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"Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal."
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"Working on stage is really a great voice developer."
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"What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition."
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