Theater Quotes - Page 9

• Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

  Julia Stiles

  Cake, Tvs, Walks

  "10 Hollywood Actors Who Would Rather Be Onstage" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.

  Mariana Klaveno

  College, Class, Careers

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Feelings, Together

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, People, Trying

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

  Jeff Britting

  New York, Leaving, Events

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percussive and other sounds. He also mixed the sound effects and the music, using the theater's first rate sound system to complement the theater's acoustics. This completed my score.

  Jeff Britting

  Sound, Firsts, Acoustics

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

  Heather Headley

  Atmosphere, Different, Roles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

  Sarah Silverman

  New York, Cities, Musical

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.

  Julia Stiles

  Summer, Running, New York

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.

  Kelly Stables

  Cells, Nuts, Musical

  "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Community, Events

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Dad, Sunday

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

  David Cross

  America, Majority, Needs

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  Adam Richman

  New York, Men, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

  Val Kilmer

  Sound, Doe, Sacred

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

  Terry Bozzio

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

  Cillian Murphy

  Moving, Years, Television

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Kids, School, Gay

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Children, School

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

  Oliver Stone

  Art, Way, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

  Jackie Speier

  School, Church, Safe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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