Theater Quotes - Page 17

• At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

  Diane Paulus

  Mean, Voice, Giving

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

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• The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldnt open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldnt talk well.

  Gale Gordon

  Wall, Party, Men

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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

  John Stamos

  Beach, Boys, Body

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• I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

  Lana Parrilla

  Christmas, White, Musical

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

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• The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

  Loni Anderson

  Actresses, Whole Life, Wanted

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• My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

  Connie Britton

  Degrees, Backgrounds, Whole

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

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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 went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

  Aida Turturro

  Teacher, New York, College

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Extroverts, Stuff, Easy

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

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• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  Laura San Giacomo

  New York, Pittsburgh, Carnegie

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

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• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  Alan Rickman

  Parent, Kind, Accidents

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• Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

  Jeremy Piven

  Jobs, People, Done

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• I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

  Eric Bogosian

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

  Carol Kane

  Art, People, Minorities

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• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

  Patrick Dempsey

  New York, Men, Play

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• As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

  Andrew Rannells

  Book, Musical, Actors

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I love doing both theater and television.

  Andrew Rannells

  Television

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

  Andrew Rannells

  Community, Used

  "QA: The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. June 9, 2011.

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