Theater Quotes - Page 9

• In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Losing Control, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Two, Mind

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.

  Alex Stapleton

  Artist, Views, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Art, Soul, Genius

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• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  William Wilberforce

  Sports, Years, Use

  William Wilberforce (1835). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christians”, p.159

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• The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.

  Sam Pressman

  Mother, Challenges, Lessons

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

  Frank Gehry

  Hero, Men, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.

  Richard Sammel

  Dancer, Musician, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

  Richard Sammel

  Art, Giving, Missing

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

  Robert Hass

  Teenager, Years, People

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

  Curtis Hanson

  Thinking, Sitting, Casting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Children, School

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.

  Jeremiah Wright

  People, Heaven, Sound

  "Jeremiah Wright on Obama, Religion and Racism". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2008.

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• There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.

  Robert Benton

  Art, New York, Successful

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.

  Larry Clark

  Teenage, Growing Up, Real

  "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

  Chukwudi Iwuji

  Successful, Rounds, Configuration

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The only thing I won't do is theater.

  Tim Roth

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

  Tim Roth

  Asking, Scared, Stage

  Source: collider.com

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• The director, Moisés Kaufman, just received the national medal of the arts from President [Barack] Obama . He wrote and directed The Laramie Project and he has directed several Pulitzer prize-winning plays. He's a pretty profound director in the theater.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Art, Winning, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

  Terry Bozzio

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

  Justin Hartley

  Play, Beats, Hard

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Thinking, Unhappy

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.

  Michael Snow

  Strong, Decision, Attention

  Source: offscreen.com

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• I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

  Ruth Wilson

  Want, Darling, Ends

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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