Theater Quotes - Page 27

• I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Periods, Deals, Values

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

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• I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

  David Cassidy

  Team, Player, Musician

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• I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

  Erika Slezak

  Might, Kind

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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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• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Relaxation

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• The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

  Susan Sontag

  Voice, Today, Weak

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• I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

  Diane Paulus

  Fall, Cutting, People

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

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• And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, New York, Mean

  "Pulitzer-winning playwright talks gay marriage, Obama, new play". Interview with Chris Welch, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2009.

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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 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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• 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 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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• Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

  Moss Hart

  India, Humbling, Honorable

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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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• There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

  Moss Hart

  Writing, Years, Acting

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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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 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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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.

  Paget Brewster

  Drama, Adventure, Done

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