Theater Quotes
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If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Hayley Mills -
Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.
Scott Bakula -
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
Luchino Visconti -
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
Al Pacino -
Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
Vernon Lee -
I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.
Karen Allen -
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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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
Walt Disney -
I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?
Karen Allen -
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
Idina Menzel -
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
Michael Caine -
I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!
Barbara Stanwyck -
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
Nathan Lane
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino -
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry -
My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.
Angelina Jolie -
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard -
I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.
Craig Brewer -
It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.
Orlando Jones
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
Tilda Swinton -
The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
Abby Brammell -
Gendered performance is just constant theater.
Christine and the Queens -
I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
Tony Kushner