Vincente Minnelli Quotes
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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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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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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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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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 get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.
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If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
