Theater Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

  Bob Balaban

  Mean, Ideas, Special

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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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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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  Lance Burton

  Fun, Opportunity, Years

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• I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Desire, Connections

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

  Minka Kelly

  School, Littles, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

  Hayley Atwell

  Feelings, Cameras, Done

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

  Samantha Barks

  Mines

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• I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

  Samantha Barks

  Careers, Musical, Doe

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• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, College, Play

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• Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

  Bob Balaban

  Play, Hooked

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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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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• I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

  James Earl Jones

  Jobs, Littles, Should

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

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• I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Independent, Work Out, Important

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• A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, People, Gazing

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

  Jillian Bach

  Actors, Television, Film

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• I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

  Michelle Branch

  Musical, Fans, Broadway

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• I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

  Laura Benanti

  Art, Thinking, Apples

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• I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

  Laura Benanti

  Rap, Thinking, Musical

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• When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

  Michael Biehn

  Cat, Kids, Parent

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• So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

  Rick Baker

  People, Generations, Television

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• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Literature

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