Theater Quotes
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My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
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My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.
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I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
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To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.
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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
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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'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
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We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
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I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
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I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
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Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
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I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
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Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
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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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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.
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I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
