Theater Quotes - Page 11

• There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.

  Howard Rheingold

  Party, Night, Two

  Source: medium.com

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• So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've heard that they're going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I've actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.

  Brent Spiner

  Fun, Smart, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  People, Musical, Want

  Source: deadline.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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• I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Opportunity, Timing, Come Up

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Wray Nerely, the character in Con Man, he actually had a role in Rogue One, but he got cut. It sucked. John Swartz, the producer, is a big fan of Con Man. I even got to screen Con Man while we were shooting Star Wars. They had a theater there, and they let me screen one of the little 10-minute episodes for everyone. What sucked was I had to follow Star Wars.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, War, Character

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Thinking, Phones, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I learned that from [Bob] Fosse and Jerome Robbins, from all the great theater directors and the Busby Berkeleys. You overdeliver: visually, emotionally.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Important, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

  James Mattis

  Doe, Problem, Killing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Parent, Inspired

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Trying, Tests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.

  Simon Helberg

  Hipster, Eye, Cities

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

  Ben Affleck

  School, Play, Fine

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Everybody used to say going to restaurants... is like theater, there's stage sets, there's drama, there's play acting and you watch the show. And now, boy, everything's just become so serious. And you sit at the counter and the chef comes out and tells you what he did to the Brussels sprouts leaves and no, there's not a lot of dancing.

  Pete Wells

  Drama, Boys, Play

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.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 C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Vintage, Musical

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

  George Carlin

  Running, Rocks, Guy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.

  Philip Glass

  Gears, Bob, Way

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform them. And then somehow I got started on it. I love doing it, but I have to ration myself very severely or I wouldn't get anything else done.

  George Benjamin

  Writing, School, Age

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ghetto, Italian

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

  Jodie Foster

  Night, Thinking, People

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.

  Kristen Hager

  Film And Television, Actors, Done

  "LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL Interview Pt. 1". Interview with Monika Bartyzel, collider.com. September 25, 2009.

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• If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

  William Monahan

  Gears, Film, Playing Around

  Source: collider.com

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• The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

  Sara Bareilles

  Community, Welcome, Used

  Source: www.elle.com

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