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Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
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Douglas Wilson
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I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
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Juliet Stevenson
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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
Author:
David Soul
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It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
Author:
David Soul
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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Stephen Sondheim
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I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
Author:
Jennifer Sky
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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Gary Sinise
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Theatre is immediate gratification.
Author:
Chita Rivera
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Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.
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Tony Randall
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I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.
Author:
Hal Price
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I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Author:
Christopher Parker
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Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
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David Naughton
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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Author:
Ajay Naidu
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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
Author:
Mandy Moore
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All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird.
Author:
Jason Mewes
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I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.
Author:
Jacqueline McKenzie
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
Author:
Jeffrey Jones
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
Author:
Beth Henley
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Author:
Uta Hagen
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You can only do so much theatre.
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Victor Garber
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I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.
Author:
Peter Gallagher
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Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
Author:
Megan Gallagher
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I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
Author:
Bill Forsyth
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I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?
Author:
Sherilyn Fenn
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I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
Author:
Christopher Durang
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You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
Author:
Cyril Cusack
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Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
Author:
Kim Cattrall
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I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.
Author:
Richard Briers
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Author:
Edward Bond
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I think there is no world without theatre.
Author:
Edward Bond
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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Author:
Edward Bond
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It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
Author:
Brenda Blethyn
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
Author:
Cate Blanchett
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Author:
Harrison Birtwistle
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In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
Author:
Tristan Bernard
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I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
Author:
Matthew Ashford
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A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
Author:
David Amram
