Theater Quotes
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For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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It is exciting to have these great musicians perform at a dynamic performance venue like Long Island University's Kumble Theater. I am grateful to the University for providing the central Brooklyn community with access to world-class productions at the Kumble Theater.
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I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
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The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.
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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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It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
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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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We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
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Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.
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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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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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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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I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
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I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
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There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.
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The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.
