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In every fleeting sigh and raised brow, we discover an unspoken ballet--honestly unclothed, involving hearts yet shuffled minds transform constraints into artistry.
Author:
Elise Wen
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Within the canvas of the unexpected, a rebellious mind wraps strategy in peacock feathers unveiling possibilities that wildly evolve amidst joyful transactions of whimsy.
Author:
Arden Talbot
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Unscripted dialogues flicker like flames, revealing the authentic warmth of presence instead of echoes of rehearsed lines.
Author:
Ella Brennan
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Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.
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Daphne Zuniga
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I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
Author:
David Zucker
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You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
Author:
John Zorn
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I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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I'm theater trained.
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Steve Zahn
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I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.
Author:
Michael York
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We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
Author:
John Yoo
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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
Author:
Fay Wray
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I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Author:
Kate Winslet
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
Author:
Richard Wilson
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
Author:
August Wilson
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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
Author:
August Wilson
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It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.
Author:
Treat Williams
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The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
Author:
Treat Williams
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Author:
Kim Weston
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Author:
Oskar Werner
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I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Author:
Oskar Werner
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
Author:
Janine Turner
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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Author:
Benicio Toro
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I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Author:
Neil Tennant
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At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
Author:
Neil Tennant
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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What I don't have in theater is editing.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Author:
A. Taubman
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
Author:
George Takei
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In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
Author:
Max Sydow
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I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.
Author:
Susan Sullivan
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I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.
Author:
Sherry Stringfield
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At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.
Author:
Peter Stone
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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Author:
David Stiers
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
Author:
Jason Statham
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.
Author:
Kurtwood Smith
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I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
Author:
Gary Sinise
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We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Author:
Carly Simon
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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Theater dates very quickly.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
Author:
Omar Sharif
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
Author:
Ted Shackelford
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I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried
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When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
Author:
David Selby
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
Author:
Vincent Schiavelli
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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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I come from a traditional theater background.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
Author:
Jerry Rubin
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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Author:
Jay Roach
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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
Author:
Jacques Rivette
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Author:
Michael Ritchie
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I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
Author:
Michael Ritchie
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
Author:
Frank Rich
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I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
Author:
Frank Rich
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Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.
Author:
Paul Reiser
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Author:
Vanessa Redgrave
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Author:
Vanessa Redgrave
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They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
Author:
James Randi
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Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Author:
Tony Randall
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.
Author:
Charlotte Rae
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There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Author:
Charley Pride
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Author:
Roman Polanski
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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
Author:
William Petersen
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
Author:
William Petersen
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The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
Author:
William Petersen
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
Author:
William Petersen
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I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.
Author:
Antoinette Perry
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What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.
Author:
Piper Perabo
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I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.
Author:
Austin Peck
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I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Author:
Norman Peale
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Author:
Mandy Patinkin
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
Author:
Adam Pascal
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All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.
Author:
Jerry Orbach
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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Author:
George Nathan
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It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
Author:
Michael Musto
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Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
Author:
Graeme Murphy
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With my background, I came out of the theater.
Author:
Joe Morton
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Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
Author:
Marguerite Moreau
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I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.
Author:
Mary Moore
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I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
Author:
Alfred Molina
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I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
Author:
Gretchen Mol
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I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Author:
Vincente Minnelli
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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
Author:
Vincente Minnelli
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Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.
Author:
Juliet Mills
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If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Author:
Hayley Mills
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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Author:
Agnes Mille
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Author:
Ian McKellen
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I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.
Author:
Dorothy McGuire
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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
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A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
Author:
Marcello Mastroianni
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I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
Author:
Marcello Mastroianni
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Author:
Garry Marshall
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
Author:
Barry Manilow
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I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
Author:
John Malkovich
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
Author:
John Malkovich
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.
Author:
Mako
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Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.
Author:
John Madden
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
Author:
William Macy
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And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
Author:
Robert MacNeil
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Author:
Patrick Macnee
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Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
Author:
Patti LuPone
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The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
Author:
Patti LuPone
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A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
Author:
Robert Ludlum
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
Author:
Chad Lowe
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I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.
Author:
Chad Lowe
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
Author:
John Lithgow
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
Author:
John Lithgow
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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
Author:
James Lipton
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Author:
Alan Lerner
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Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Author:
Michael Ledeen
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Author:
Jerome Lawrence
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Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
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Jerome Lawrence
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We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
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Linda Lavin
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I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
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Sanaa Lathan
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I don't think about going back to the theater.
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Angela Lansbury
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The theater is magical and addictive.
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Angela Lansbury
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Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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Nathan Lane
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When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
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Diane Lane
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Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
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Richard Lamm
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Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
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Peter Krause
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When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
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William Kraft
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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
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Jeff Koons
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We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.
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Mark Knopfler
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Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
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Shirley Knight
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I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
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Shirley Knight
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My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
Author:
Shirley Knight
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Eartha Kitt
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
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Nastassja Kinski
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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Ben Kingsley
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
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Nicole Kidman
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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Alicia Keys
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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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Casey Kasem
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People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
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Carol Kane
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I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.
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Bert Kalmar
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Thank God for the theater.
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Raul Julia
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I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
Author:
Raul Julia
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
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Neil Jordan
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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Quincy Jones
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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
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James Jones
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
Author:
James Jones
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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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James Jones
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I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
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Kristen Johnston
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
Author:
Kristen Johnston
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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
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Thomas Jane
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My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
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Brion James
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Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.
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Derek Jacobi
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Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
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Michael Jackson
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I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
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Amy Irving
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An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
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Jeremy Irons
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I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
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Bill Hybels
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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
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Bill Hybels
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
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William Hurt
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I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
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John Hughes
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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William Howells
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I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
Author:
Moe Howard
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Larry Hovis
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Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
Author:
Tom Hooper
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My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
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Philip Hoffman
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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Philip Hoffman
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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Philip Hoffman
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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
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Joel Hodgson
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A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
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Joel Hodgson
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Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
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Joel Hodgson
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I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
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Jerry Herman
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
Author:
Jerry Herman
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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Lillian Hellman
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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Patricia Heaton
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The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.
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David Hasselhoff
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Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
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Moss Hart
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
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Neil Harris
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God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
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Julie Harris
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In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
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Marcia Harden
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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Marcia Harden
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I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
Author:
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
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Peter Hall
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I have done a lot of theater.
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Jerry Hall
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
Author:
Jerry Hall
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Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
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Jerry Hall
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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Jessica Hagedorn
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Author:
Jessica Hagedorn
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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Franz Grillparzer
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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Germaine Greer
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You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
Author:
Adolph Green
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I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
Author:
Adolph Green
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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Martha Graham
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We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
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Eydie Gorme
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
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Gale Gordon
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The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
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Gale Gordon
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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Dan Glickman
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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Dan Glickman
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I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
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Mickey Gilley
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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Laura Giacomo
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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
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Jennifer Garner
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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Lady Gaga
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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
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David Friedman
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I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
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Jonathan Frid
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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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Morgan Freeman
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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
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Michael Fox
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
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Richard Foreman
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If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Author:
Richard Foreman
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Author:
Richard Foreman
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Author:
Carlisle Floyd
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Author:
Carlisle Floyd
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I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.
Author:
Louise Fletcher
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Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
Author:
Louise Fletcher
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This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
Author:
Minnie Fiske
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
Author:
Minnie Fiske
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Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Author:
Michael Fassbender
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I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
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David Elliott
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Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
Author:
Jenna Elfman
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Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
Author:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Author:
Sergei Eisenstein
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I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
Author:
Jesse Eisenberg
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Author:
Zac Efron
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Author:
Zac Efron
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When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Author:
Leslie Easterbrook
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I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
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Minnie Driver
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In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
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Minnie Driver
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I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Rachel Dratch
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
Author:
Jeffrey Donovan
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Vincent D'Onofrio
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The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
Author:
Placido Domingo
