All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Seán O'Casey

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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Edward Albee

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Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"
Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.
Really?"
I'm in for it.
Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.

Lesley Livingston

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Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)"

[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Elaine Stritch

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

Lady Gaga

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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.

P.S. Baber

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

Jennifer Donnelly

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