Theatre Quotes - Page 21

• I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

  Erica Schroeder

  People, Dancer, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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• Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Growing Up, Creative, Energy

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.

  Nick Kroll

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."

  Susan Sarandon

  Senior, Fall, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

  Nicholas Royle

  Artist, Europe, Quality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Florida, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Growing Up, Taken, Ucla

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects.

  Norman Lock

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

  Gisele Freund

  Real, Hands, Magazines

  Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”

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• Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.

  Kevin Spacey

  Night, Order, Two

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• I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Tennis, Different

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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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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• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  Om Puri

  Three, Firsts, Lost

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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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• The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

  Lillian Russell

  Girl, Dance, Dancing

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• Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

  Albert Finney

  Taken, Careers, Special

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• I have such a passion for theatre.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Passion

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• Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

  Israel Horovitz

  All Time, Irrelevant

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• When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Player, Sun

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

  Susan Stroman

  Heart, Two, Live Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

  Lady Gaga

  Expression, Different, Kind

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• I came up in comics doing lots of DIY self-published stuff, producing my own books, handling all the details of creation and production. And theatre is something that's really attractive to me, as it's a similarly accessible form - it has a lot of the same sort of down-and dirty DIY spirit, where you can make a lot with a little.

  Fred Van Lente

  Dirty, Book, Self

  "'King Kirby' Takes The Stage: Fred Van Lente On His New Play About Jack Kirby's Life". Interview with Patrick A. Reed, comicsalliance.com. June 19, 2014.

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