Theater Quotes
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People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
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The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
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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.
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The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
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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!
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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New York is obviously the capital of theater.
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I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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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.
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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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Gendered performance is just constant theater.
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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.
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I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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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.
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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.
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
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I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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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.
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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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?
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
