Stage Quotes

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.

A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.