Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

— Anne Rice

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

— Lady Gaga

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

— Kate McGahan

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

— Jennifer Donnelly

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.

— Israelmore Ayivor

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

— Anthony Liccione

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

— Gérard de Nerval

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

— Eva Hoffman

One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.

— Patricia Highsmith