Theater Quotes
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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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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I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.
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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 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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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.
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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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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
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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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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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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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Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
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I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
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We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
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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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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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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
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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.
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I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
