Theatre Quotes
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It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
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To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
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Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.
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In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show.
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I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.
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When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.
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I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.
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For my money, all theatre should be free.
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I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.
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People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.
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I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.
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What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.
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I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
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Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
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There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'
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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'
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Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.
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Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
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I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
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Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
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I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
