Theatre Quotes - Page 10

• From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

  Lee Hall

  Kings, Profound, Hierarchy

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Tourists

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Ghouls, Keys, Two

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• There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

  Boman Irani

  Years, Play, Twelve

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• Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time it's this theatre for various kinds of cruelty. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but the worst possible behaviour is sort of allowed for. It looks to me like an endlessly rich container for really terrible drama, but also pretty grand love. It accommodates such a variety of feeling in such a natural way, and it feels so relatable, and yet it's such a funny construct, socially, the family.

  Ben Marcus

  Loyalty, Drama, Work Out

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• I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Nerd, Musical, Able

  Source: www.broadwaybullet.com

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• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  David Edward Kirk

  Kings, Riding, Elements

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• Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

  Francesca Annis

  Hard Work, Taught, Hard

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• I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

  Michael Gambon

  Taken, Years, Actors

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

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• I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Years, Passionate

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• But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

  Edgar Berman

  Fun, Cancer, Party

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

  Louise Jameson

  Thinking, Space, Quirky

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• I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

  David Walliams

  Two, Lunch, Eight

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Skills, Realizing, Designer

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• They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Running, New York, Oscars

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m doing this play.’ He said, ‘Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in school’

  Dane DeHaan

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Justin Timberlake

  Movie, Simple, Sneak In

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• We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

  Jim Dale

  Museums, Technique, Custodians

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

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Village

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• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Fog, Two, Lasts

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

  Lea Salonga

  Film And Television, Television, Film

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• Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

  Christopher Lee

  Horror, Description

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Relationship, Thinking, Collaboration

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• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  Felicity Jones

  Play, Film, Short Films

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