Theater Quotes
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
Abby Brammell
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Maggie Siff
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I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
Patrick Macnee
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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.
Abby Brammell
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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.
Cameron Monaghan
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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?'
Frances McDormand
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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.
Estelle Parsons
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
Jean Gabin
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
Ted Shackelford
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
Al Pacino
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
Harold Prince
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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.
Estelle Parsons
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I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
Adam Sandler
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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.
Estelle Parsons
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TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
Walter Annenberg
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We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
Tom Hanks
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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.
Kate Burton
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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.
Al Pacino
