Theater Quotes - Page 21

• The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Narrative, Language, Film

  "Immersed in Movies: Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Climbs ‘The Tree of Life’" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

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• I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.

  Allen Covert

  Country, Kids, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.

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• When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

  Diego Luna

  Girl, Growing Up, Heart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

  David James

  School, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

  Mark Hamill

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Mark Hamill can't escape 'Star Wars' spotlight". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

  Steven Berkoff

  Form

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• The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

  Steven Berkoff

  Looks, Garbage, Mainstream

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• As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

  August Wilson

  Play, White, Folks

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• When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, School, Training

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

  August Wilson

  Height, Firsts, Poet

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• Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

  Estelle

  Believe, Needs, I Believe

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• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  Estelle

  Character, Fire, Trials

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• I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

  Estelle

  Time Off

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

  Richard Griffiths

  Tired, Commitment, Sick

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• You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

  Adolph Green

  Years, Lasts, Last Year

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• At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

  George Washington

  Truth, Distance, Action

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Mind Blowing, Three

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• One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Fit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Men, People

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• And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Sitting, Adrenaline

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