Theater Quotes
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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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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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 love theater: I can do shows that are completely different from one another. Altar Boyz had heavy dance moves, but also a comic edge to it. And now I'm utilizing all my physical skills: jumping on walls, doing pratfalls and bits and huge takes. My whole show is basically lining up one bit after the next.
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I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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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 want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
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My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.
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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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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.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
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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 attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.
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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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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.
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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
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I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.
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Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.
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One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.
