Theater Quotes
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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 Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.
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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.
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I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
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My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
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I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
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This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
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Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
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I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.
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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.
