Theater Quotes
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
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By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.
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I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
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If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.
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My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
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I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.
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Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
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In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
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I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
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I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
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In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
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Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
