Jacki Weaver Quotes
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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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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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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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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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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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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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
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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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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.
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I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!
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I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
