Joshua Henry (Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry) Quotes
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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Music is my first love.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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I pretty much know what I'm doing.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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Typography is what language looks like.
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There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
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I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?
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Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.
