Theater Quotes - Page 25

• 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 wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

  Rick James

  Thinking, Play, Long

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 23, 2013

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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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• I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

  Scott Baio

  Tired, Years, Break Out

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

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• Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

  Nina Arianda

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

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• Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

  Scott Bakula

  Guy, Firsts, Wells

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• I grew up doing musical theater.

  Chris Colfer

  Musical, Grew Up, Grew

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• When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

  Darren Criss

  Real, Good Friend, College

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• There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

  David Cook

  Song, Emotional, Aspect

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

  Dennis Christopher

  Done, Proud

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• If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Choices, Would Be, Actors

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

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• I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Reality, Thinking

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

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• Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

  James Belushi

  Chicago, Just Being, Plus

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

  Bobby Cannavale

  New York, Home, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

  Jerry Hall

  Art, Fans, Bigs

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• I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

  Nina Arianda

  Mom, Kids, Play

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• I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

  Curtis Armstrong

  School, Kids, Fit

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

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• I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

  Nina Arianda

  Jobs, Wine, Shoes

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• I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.

  Nina Arianda

  Hate, Mistake, Moving

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• I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

  Armand Assante

  Years, Film

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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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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