Theater Quotes
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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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.
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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 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.
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Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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There's a romance and power to live theater.
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
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Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
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As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
