Theater Quotes
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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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The Open Society of Athens In democratic Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Greek civilization reached the apex of creativity. Perhaps alone among the Greek communities studied in this book, the classical Athenians demonstrated their ample endowment with every one of the ten characteristics that defined the ancient Greek mind-set. They were superb sailors, insatiably curious, and unusually suspicious of individuals with any kind of power. They were deeply competitive, masters of the spoken word, enjoyed laughing so much that they institutionalized comic theater, and were addicted to pleasurable pastimes. Yet the feature of the Athenian character that underlies every aspect of their collective achievement is undoubtedly their openness—to innovation, to adopting ideas from outside, and to self-expression.
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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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If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
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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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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
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The only reason to do a 'SpongeBob' on Broadway is if it's gonna bring something new to the brand, something new to 'SpongeBob,' and also something innovative to theater and to Broadway.
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Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
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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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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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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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One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.
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I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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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.
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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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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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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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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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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.
