Theatre Quotes - Page 15

• Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

  Katori Hall

  Men, White Man, Dying

  "Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Happiness, World, Pages

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have such a passion for theatre.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Passion

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• In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Principles, May, Size

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book V, Chapter V, Section 1,

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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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 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 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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• 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 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'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Firsts, Popcorn

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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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• Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

  Augusto Boal

  Weapons, Reason

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

  Susan Sontag

  Individual, Type, Pornography

  'The Pornographic Imagination' (1967)

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