#stage

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#comedy #cry #go #just #laugh

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure. ↗

— Fay Wray

#around #audience #cary #cary grant #grant

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#fell #i #knee #off #once

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide on man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#chorus #globe-theatre #history-plays #imagination #stage

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#formative #function #i #mirror #psychoanalytic

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#am #design #express #extreme #happy

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#grew #i #love #loved #stage

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#different #different thing #film #happening #just

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me. ↗

— Nathan Lane

#because #gay #i #i am #know

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. ↗

— James Laughlin

#cam #case #certainly #deal #formative