During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Life must be lived as play.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‚Bad Bunny.‘

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.