Theater Quotes - Page 37

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

  Jerry Hall

  Art, Fans, Bigs

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• I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Hurt, Drama, Here And There

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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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• Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

  Jonathan Raban

  Discipline, People, Society

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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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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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Actors, Supposed To Be

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Pitfalls, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

  David Geffen

  Jobs, Shows, Needed

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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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• I long to get back into theater.

  Antonio Banderas

  Long, Get Back

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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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• But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

  Stanley Elkin

  Art, Fire, Order

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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

  Moss Hart

  India, Humbling, Honorable

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• The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Behavior, Consoling

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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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 think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

  Pearl Cleage

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• I don't think about going back to the theater.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking

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• I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

  Al Pacino

  Running, Careers, Fleeing

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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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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• You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

  Rutger Hauer

  Beautiful, Two, Long

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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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