Theater Quotes
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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.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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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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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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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
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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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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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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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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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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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I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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There's a romance and power to live theater.
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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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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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I guess Richard Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.
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Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
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A lot of my friends were a lot into theater a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.
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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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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
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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.
