Stage Quotes

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Men

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

Great, Cry, Born

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

Sad, Play, Hold

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Play, Badly, Cast

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

Age, Good, True

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

Experience, Career, Made

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw

Why, Whole, Means

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Bob Dylan

Life, Happy, Place

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Government, Society

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music, Truth, Makes

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West

Another, Enjoyed, Broadway

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
Bob Dylan

Happy, Place, Again

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland

Alone, Feeling, Four

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Control, Thoughts, Moral

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Character, Person

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz

Life, Happy, Last

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins

Technology, Important, Deep

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

War, Death, Pain

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander Hamilton

Nation, Progress, Found

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Pictures, Theater

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen Hayes

Good, Beautiful, Leaving

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie Chaplin

Movies, Live, Fad

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller

Yourself, Decision, Problem

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan

Strength, Lost, Youth

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles

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