Theater Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

  Jonathan Raban

  Discipline, People, Society

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  James Earl Jones

  Views, Land, Knowing

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Kids, Ethos, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Actors, Supposed To Be

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• I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

  David Geffen

  Jobs, Shows, Needed

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• The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Play, Paper, Rooms

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• When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

  Antonio Banderas

  Beautiful, Character, Kids

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• My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

  Les Claypool

  Play, Cities, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Behavior, Consoling

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

  Scott Caan

  Acting, Impossible, De Niro

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

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• The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Saint, May, Sin

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I don't think about going back to the theater.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Actors, Done, Broadway

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

  Rutger Hauer

  Beautiful, Two, Long

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• Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

  Bill Pullman

  Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

  Jerry Orbach

  Tv Shows, Worry, Want

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

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