Theater Quotes
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.
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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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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.
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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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Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
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All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
