Theater Quotes
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I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do 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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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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I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
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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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I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
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I love the theater; the theater sort of raised me. So I'm quite sure I will go back to the theater. Right now I'm sort of captured in the all-consuming, fantastical world of movies.
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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
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I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
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There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned but celebrated. This place is the theater.
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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I spend a part of the year in New York when based in L.A. and vice versa. It's the only way I feel balanced. Outside of theater and my community of friends out there, my family is still in N.Y., so I have a lot of reasons to spend time out there as well. I guess I'm bi-coastal.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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There's a romance and power to live theater.
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The real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
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Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.
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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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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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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.
