Jamie Parker Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
Rachel Weisz -
The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
Damian Woetzel -
I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
Samuel Barnett -
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Rachel Tucker -
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
Felicity Jones -
I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
Tamsin Greig
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
Rainn Wilson -
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane -
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
Garry Hynes -
I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
Rachel McAdams -
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
Orla Brady
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My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.
Mahesh Babu -
City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
Octavia Spencer -
I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.
Samuel Barnett -
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Kate Winslet -
The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
Harold Pinter -
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game.
Lisa Lutz -
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
Leslie Fiedler -
So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.
Jason Gann -
The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.
Jessica Valenti -
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Jack Roy -
I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.
Jamie Parker