Theatre Quotes - Page 12

• One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Acting, Half, Belief

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

  Audrey Tautou

  Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

  Jake Epstein

  School, Juilliard, Canada

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• I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

  Susan Stroman

  Art, Unique, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

  Sarah Burton

  Art, Fun, Creating

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• Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.

  Viola Spolin

  Play, Wish, Improvisation

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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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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• Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

  Steve Earle

  Live Theatre, Important, Records

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Home, England

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

  Jeremy Jordan

  Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

  Kenneth Branagh

  Breathing, Want, Bones

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  Debra Messing

  Friendship, New York, Gay

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• I'd love to teach theatre arts.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Art, Teach

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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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