Theater Quotes
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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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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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As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
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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 was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
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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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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
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It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.
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I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
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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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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
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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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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 think of theater as a place of instructive entertainment where you can sit and learn to laugh or cry. I'm not going to ever contribute to delinquency in my roles, either adult or juvenile delinquency; I think too much of the public.
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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
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Thank God for the theater.
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
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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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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.
