Theater Quotes
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
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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 smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
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I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
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The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
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To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
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I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.
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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
