Theater Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

  Zach Braff

  Summer, Shopping, Worry

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• When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, School, Training

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

  Cathy Rigby

  Hard Work, Athlete, Thinking

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• Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Vectors, Circus

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• No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

  Estelle

  Believe, Needs, I Believe

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• Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

  Estelle

  Two, Goes On, Tickets

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• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  Estelle

  Character, Fire, Trials

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• I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

  Estelle

  Time Off

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• You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

  The Miz

  Wwe, Long, Enough

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• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Kids, Novelists

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• Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, Want Something, House

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• It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

  Richard Griffiths

  Tired, Commitment, Sick

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• I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

  Richard Griffiths

  Teacher, Teaching, Elements

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• I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

  Francois Truffaut

  Morning, School, Skip

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• I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Mind Blowing, Three

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• The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Men, People

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• And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Sitting, Adrenaline

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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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• One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Fit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  First Love, Love Is, Roots

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