Theater Quotes
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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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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
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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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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
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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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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.
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I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.
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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].
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In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.
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It is exciting to have these great musicians perform at a dynamic performance venue like Long Island University's Kumble Theater. I am grateful to the University for providing the central Brooklyn community with access to world-class productions at the Kumble Theater.
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I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
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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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It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.
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The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.
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Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.
