Theater Quotes - Page 8

• It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Knowing, Church, May

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I've always been entranced with theater.

  Mark Leyner

  "The Rumpus Book Club chat with Mark Leyner". Live chat (edited by Brian Spears), therumpus.net. March 16, 2016.

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• When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

  LeCrae

  Heart, People, Bags

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

  Misty Copeland

  New York, Years, Cities

  "Not My Job: Ballerina Misty Copeland Gets Quizzed On Morris Dancing". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 25, 2014.

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• I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

  Andy Samberg

  College, Lucky, Ensemble

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, People, Fans

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

  Patrick Wilson

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Class, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . . Look, it's very weird to have part and parcel of a job to feel like you're a lure for men to come into the theater. Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

  Rose McGowan

  Jobs, Eye, Men

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Real, Watches, Stories

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• I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."

  Susan Sarandon

  Senior, Fall, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

  Susan Sarandon

  Actors, Film, Where You Are

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.

  George Saunders

  Drama, Ideas, Catholic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Kings, New York, Confused

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• Yeah, this is what I think was a quality of movies, is you're in a group of people. You're sharing something with people. Whether those other people make you laugh more, you're all laughing. You're all happy together. There's something... manmade about that in a way that's - I'm not sure how that manifests itself in nature, but culturally we've set that up when we invented theater and the movies and all that stuff.

  Paul Reubens

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

  Paul Rudd

  Cities, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.

  John Cariani

  Play, Actresses, Rich

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Reflection, Men, Mirrors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.

  Jeff Britting

  Interesting, Directors, Joining

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

  John Leguizamo

  Art, Drama, School

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Couple, Sibling, People

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o'clock and I'd be gone.

  John Leguizamo

  Moving, Eight, Gone

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Play, Cinema, Matter

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

  Oliver Stone

  Dirty, People, Clean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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