Mae West - William Shakespeare & As You Like It 2012 TV - Norman Wisdom - Noel Coward - Orson Welles - Oscar Wilde - Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? TV - Tom Stoppard - P S Baber - Sean O'Casey - Peter Ackroyd - Arthur Conan Doyle -
84,911. Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. (Personality & Stage) Mae West
2,003. 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. (Life’s Like That & Shadow & Stage & Nothing) William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth V v 22 Macbeth
4,164. A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one. (World & Stage & Actor & Sad) William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I i, Antonio
4,166. Duke Senior: Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
This wide and universal theatre.
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.
Jaques: 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. (World & Life’s Like That & Actor & Stage & Theatre) William Shakespeare, As You Like It II vii @135
46,163. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. (Shakespeare & Stage) As You Like It, Globe Theatre Sky Arts 2012, Jaques
43,276. I spent virtually all of those years on the road. You could keep incredibly busy just performing in pantomimes and revues. There was a whole generation of performers who learned everything on the stage. (Comedy & Stage) Norman Wisdom
45,646. Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington,
Don’t put your daughter on the stage. (Theatre & Stage) Noel Coward, Mrs Worthington 1935 song
45,648. I took the easy way. I went on the stage ... Began at the top and have been working my way down ever since. (Theatre & Stage) Orson Welles, F For Fake 1974
45,693. The world is a stage, but the play is barely cast. (Play & Stage) Oscar Wilde
30,901. Parliament issued an order for the utter suppression and abolishing of all stage plays. (England & Civil War & Theatre & Stage & Plays) Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? BBC 2012
45,707. We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. (Drama & Stage & Plays & Theatre) Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
45,714. The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe. (Drama & Stage & Theatre) P S Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe
45,720. All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Seán O'Casey
45,721. Chaucer is the father of our poetry; Shakespeare is the father of our stage. (Stage & Poetry) Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London p35
45,722. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes