Community Theatre Quotes

• From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

  Kevin James

  Play, Opening Up, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

  Jimmi Simpson

  New York, Agents, Found

  "Jimmi Simpson Tackles Sorkin's Farnsworth". Interview with James Sims, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2007.

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• I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

  Thomston

  Musical, Trying, Tunes

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• I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

  Michelle Williams

  Children, Acting, Wizards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion and it's not always the fun part of it.

  Gail O'Grady

  Fun, Thinking, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

  Beth Henley

  Mother, Play, Grew Up

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m doing this play.’ He said, ‘Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in school’

  Dane DeHaan

  Teacher, School, Class

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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Acting

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