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Stage-struck   /steɪdʒ-strək/   Listen
Stage-struck

adjective
1.
Infatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act.





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"Stage-struck" Quotes from Famous Books



... a stupid little waif, whom anyone but a gang of sentimental actors would have sent to Bellevue without a second thought or feeling. For, to get disgustingly realistic, my most plausible theory of me is that I'm a stage-struck girl from Iowa who saw her twenties slipping away and her sanity too, and made the dash to Greenwich Village, and went so ape on Shakespeare after seeing her first performance in Central Park that she kept going back there night after night (Christopher Street, Penn Station, Times ...
— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... mad woman! What do you think this will mean to me? It means failure—complete failure! I never could get through the scene again. It means thousands of dollars, that's what it means. Because I let a stage-struck fool like you speak a line! Talk about gratitude! You turn and ...
— The Cricket • Marjorie Cooke
... prostitutes; and every night when the torches flared it vomited forth its deadly spawn. Here was the earliest home of Eleanor Gwyn, and out of this den of iniquity she came at night to sell oranges at the entrance to the theaters. She was stage-struck, and endeavored to get even a minor part in a play; but Betterton, the famous actor, thrust her aside when she ventured ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr


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