There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.

I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I've always said that to win the Champions League, you need to reach a certain stage in good form and with good fitness levels.

I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an attack of modesty.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

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