Theatre Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

  Steve Buscemi

  Art, Strong, Moving

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Steve Buscemi & Jo Andres on ISSUE PROJECT ROOM". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 28, 2011.

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• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Elderly, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.182

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• In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Writing, Men

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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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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• I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Hours, Minutes

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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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• Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

  Mel Torme

  Chicago, Hollywood, Broadway

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Generosity

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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  David Amram

  Uncles, Years, Dukes

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• Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

  Susan Sontag

  Individual, Type, Pornography

  'The Pornographic Imagination' (1967)

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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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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• My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

  Colm Meaney

  Stars, Thinking, Worry

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• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Drama, School, Hated

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• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Science

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Volume 2 "On Various Subjects"), 1851, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale in "Essays and Aphorisms", 1970.

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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 feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  Pat Nixon

  World, Enough, Feels

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• You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

  Naomi Campbell

  Fashion, Race

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• I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

  John Huston

  Rip, Play, Ideas

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• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

  Saffron Burrows

  Cameras, Rooms, Away From You

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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 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'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

  Charlie Rowe

  Kids

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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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