Theater Quotes
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.
