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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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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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 love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."
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The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
