Debra Dean Quotes
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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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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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'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
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I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.
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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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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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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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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts
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You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.
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I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
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Besides with a massive, imponderable work like this, you can only ever get near it and challenges like that restore your confidence. I feel more ready for theatre than ever.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
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When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.
