Theater Quotes - Page 15

• Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

  Treat Williams

  Successful, Tv Shows, Long

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

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

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• Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

  Estelle Parsons

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• Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.

  Aaron Tveit

  People, Our Society, Society Today

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• I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?

  Alfred Lunt

  Grateful, Found Someone, Years

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• The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

  Harold Clurman

  Beautiful, Girl, Legs

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• I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.

  Zach Braff

  New York, Writing, Years

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• You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

  David Morrissey

  People, Want, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Thinking, Play, Term Paper

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• Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

  Aaron Sorkin

  War, Worry, Film

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• One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Doe, Mystery, Contact

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2010). “Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy”, p.28, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

  Michael York

  Love, New York, Doors

  "Interview: Michael York actor". www.askmen.com.

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• As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

  Richard Foreman

  Emotional, Over You, Trying

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• Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

  William Petersen

  First Love, Tv Shows, Careers

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

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• Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

  Mark Rydell

  Friday, Night, Thinking

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• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Accomplishment, Words Of Wisdom

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• For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Healing, Eye

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• I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

  Estelle Parsons

  Happiness, Laughter, Moving

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• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Literature

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• In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

  Irwin Shaw

  Character, Cutting, Voice

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• If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.

  Stephen Spinella

  New York, Struggle, Shoes

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

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• Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

  Moss Hart

  Play, Theatre, Charity

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• One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

  Martin Filler

  Eye, Age, Enlightenment

  Martin Filler (2007). “Makers of Modern Architecture”, New York Review of Books

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• I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Actors, Stage, Depends

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• When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lonely, Moving, Boys

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 01, 2013

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