On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
‐‐ Alan Alda
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
‐‐ Jon Cryer
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
‐‐ Anthony Quinn
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway
On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
‐‐ Erich Maria Remarque
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
‐‐ Scott Turow
On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.
‐‐ Charles J. Shields
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
‐‐ Charles Sturt
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.
‐‐ John McCain
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
‐‐ Sam Harris
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.
‐‐ Stephen Schwartz
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
‐‐ Anne Parillaud
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas
On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
‐‐ Jessica Brown Findlay
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
‐‐ Jon Landau
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
‐‐ Kathy Acker
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
‐‐ Martin Freeman
On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya
On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system.
‐‐ Henry Spencer
On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.
‐‐ Sania Mirza
On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
‐‐ Richard Ernst
On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.
‐‐ Betty Hill
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
‐‐ Jean Racine
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
‐‐ Zakk Wylde
On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman
'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
‐‐ Scott Ellis
On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
‐‐ Susan Orlean
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
‐‐ Feist
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
‐‐ Nellie Bly
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
‐‐ Joe Biden
On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
‐‐ Lawrence R. Klein
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
‐‐ Lionel Blue
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik
On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.
‐‐ Ricky Van Veen
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
‐‐ Robert Peel
On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
‐‐ Zhang Xin
On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.
‐‐ Carrot Top