Theater Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

  Alton Brown

  Real, College, Years

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• I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

  Susan Sullivan

  Running, New York, Blessed

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

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• I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

  Eric Stoltz

  Men, Able, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  Movie, College, Actors

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• I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

  Steve Zahn

  New York, Play, Guy

  "Q&A – Steve Zahn Says A Perfect Getaway Forced Him to Pay Attention". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

  Chris Cooper

  Thank You, Years, Technique

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• Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Technique, Cameras

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• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  Fay Wray

  Work, Moving, Looks

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• The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

  Ben Vereen

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Dedication

  Ben Vereen: Biography, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

  John Lithgow

  Looks, Stories, West

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• I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

  Stephen Moyer

  Wings, Television, World

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• I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

  James Dean

  School, People, House

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• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  Ted Shackelford

  Real, Acting, Film

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• Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

  William Petersen

  Stars, Thinking, Hollywood

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• The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.

  Dean Cain

  Mother, Gay, Different

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

  Jerry Hall

  Character, Being In Love, Grows

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• When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Ideas, Car, Chinese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.

  Judith Malina

  Art, Independent, League

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