Maggie Smith Quotes
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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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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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
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If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
