Jennifer Lawrence Quotes
I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right.
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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.
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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.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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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.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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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.
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
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The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
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In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
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Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
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Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
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Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting.
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I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
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My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right.
