Theater Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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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 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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• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

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• Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

  Pauline Collins

  Different, Actors, Engagement

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• I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

  Anna Camp

  Jobs, Dallas, Firsts

  "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I'm afraid to do theater now.

  John Corbett

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Branches

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

  Peter Dinklage

  Actors, Done, Shooting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Running, Actors, Doe

  "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

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• You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

  Charles Durning

  Years, Play, Tvs

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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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• I grew up doing musical theater.

  Chris Colfer

  Musical, Grew Up, Grew

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• I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

  Jeff Daniels

  New York, People, Guy

  "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.

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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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• There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  School, Years, Junior Year

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

  Cary Elwes

  Unique, Thinking, Three

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• I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

  Cary Elwes

  Thinking, Long, Lucky

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• I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

  Dan Fogler

  Grew Up, Grew

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• I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

  John Malkovich

  Say Anything, Would Be, Use

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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