Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
— Anne RiceMy friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
— Lady GagaLife is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaWhy 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 McGahanHappiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
— Jennifer DonnellyNo 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 AyivorWe 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 LiccioneI 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 NervalWhen 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 HoffmanOne 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