Theater Quotes
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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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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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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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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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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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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At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical 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 movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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.
