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.
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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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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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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 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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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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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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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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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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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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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
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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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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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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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Thank God for the 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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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 lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
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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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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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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 was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
