Theatre Quotes - Page 23

• The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Circles, People, Black

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• I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Clubs, Stuff

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

  Ewan McGregor

  Night, Thinking, Skills

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Philosophical, Character, Choices

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Coming from the theatre I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel.

  Sutton Foster

  Princess, Character, Gowns

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I walked out at the end of the play, which is a very intense play - my character is required to do some really horrible things - and the director was waiting backstage and he goes, "Obviously I didn't want to tell you guys, but Ian was here today" and we, of course, freaked out.Ian McKellen said some really beautiful, kind things, one of which was, "It's so much harder to watch than it is to do."

  Patrick Heusinger

  Beautiful, Character, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

  Robert Englund

  Careers, Actors, Snob

  Source: houseofgeekery.com

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• I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.

  Dan Payne

  Volleyball, Grateful, Player

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready. Shakespeare is a culmination of eight years of stand up experience and joke writing. I recorded two shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. The crowds were great and that's what really makes an album.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  New York, Writing, Eight

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Lunch, Tea, Afternoon

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

  Kate Bush

  Pieces, Concerts, Wanted

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

  Kate Bush

  Intimate, Shows, Audience

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was so new, an audience perceived it as magic. Also in the early stages of holograms magicians would use these images to baffle and mystify their fans. Hence, you always need to stay one step ahead of the technology game to "WOW" the audience.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Technology, Games

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration.

  David Copperfield

  Inspiration

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• [Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.

  Catherine Camus

  Football, Morality, Moralist

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Jobs, Creating, Saving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

  Alan Tudyk

  Running, Years, Two

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

  Charlie Barnett

  Doors, Chicago, Actors

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.

  Clive Rowe

  Community, Important, Tourism

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

  Clive Rowe

  Opera, Taste, Pantomime

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

  Clive Rowe

  Ideas, Environment, Enjoy

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

  Clive Rowe

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.

  Chris Hadfield

  Nightlife, Favourite City, Cities

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• In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Kings, Book, School

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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