Theater Quotes - Page 16

• I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

  Michelle Branch

  Geek, Choir

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

  David Hume

  Perception, Mind, Philosopher

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.534

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• New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Cities, People

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• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  Zosia Mamet

  Giving, Alive, Hours

  "Next Gen 2012: Actresses", www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

  Neil LaBute

  Hurt, Men, Feelings

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Artist, Feelings, Acting

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black

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• The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

  Steven Berkoff

  Team, Soldier, Actors

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Waiting Rooms

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

  Leonard Maltin

  Dvds, Games, Alternatives

  "In the Money" with Andy Serwer, Allen Wastler, Carrie Lee, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2005.

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• When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

  Justin Bartha

  Talking, Wonderful, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

  James Randi

  Let Down, Feels, Has Beens

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

  James Broughton

  Vision, Acting, World

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• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  Wendy Beckett

  Country, Art, Mean

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• The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, People, Essentials

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• I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

  Ruben Studdard

  Growth, Fans, Really Cool

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• Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

  Martha Graham

  Drama, Verbs, Nouns

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• Everything in life is theater.

  Margo Jones

  Drama, Life Is

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• I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  New York, Airports, Cities

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Priorities, Acting, Way

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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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• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Beautiful, Pathways, Mexico

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