Theater Quotes - Page 34

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  Alan Cumming

  Home, People, Different

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• I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

  Melissa Rauch

  Teacher, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Struggle, Games

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• Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Growing Up, Athlete, Felt

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• God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  A. Alfred Taubman

  Auctions, Would Be, World

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• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Art, Team

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

  Tony Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  "Tony Kushner: The full interview". Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Obvious Things, Forever

  Interview, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

  Tony Kushner

  Political, Dimensions, Kind

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

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• I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Thinking, Directors

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• It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

  Jason Statham

  People, Bored, Walks

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• It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. ... Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Believe, Years

  "Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes".

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• The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

  Ben Fountain

  Art, Real, Gems

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• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Night, Glowing

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Song, Musical, Use

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Childhood, Thumbs

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• When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Tasks, Poet, Turns

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• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  Fiona Shaw

  Bored, Loathe

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

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• There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

  Fiona Shaw

  Performing, Stills, Cork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

  Luchino Visconti

  Meetings, Melodrama

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• I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Boston, Acting, Film

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• There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

  Charlie Kaufman

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