Theater Quotes
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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.
Rene Descartes -
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.'
Monica Vitti
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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.
Anita Briem -
I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
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.
Milla Jovovich -
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale -
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.
Michael Imperioli -
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.
Hale Appleman
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
Augusto Boal -
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.
Erich Bergen -
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
Elayne Boosler -
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.
Lauren Bacall -
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.
Stephen Karam -
I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
Bellamy Young
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
Alan Rickman -
Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.
Michael Riedel -
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.
Alan Armstrong -
Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
Catherine McCormack -
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Eve Ensler
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Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.
Hallie Flanagan -
Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].
Jeremy Irvine -
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.
Andrew Bujalski