Theatre Quotes - Page 24

• This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Twilight, Bars

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.4

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• I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

  Lanford Wilson

  Writing, Color, People

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• I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

  Scott Bakula

  Opportunity, Done, Television

  Interview with Marissa Charles, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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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 don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  Sally Phillips

  Kids, Bed, Want

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Fire, Hilarity

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• I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

  Charley Pride

  Littles, Amazed, Seasons

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• Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

  Liev Schreiber

  Acting, Enjoy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2005.

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• The paparazzi were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I'd wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there's nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Night, Frustrated, Months

  "Radcliffe Enjoyed Irritating Paparazzi" by wenn.com, July 11, 2007.

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• People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

  Austin Pendleton

  Writing, People, Desire

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• The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Play, Details, Imagine

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.

  Elia Suleiman

  Nice, Political, Example

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• ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Mean, Ideas, Bullshit

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• A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

  David Alan Grier

  Reading, Thinking, Simple

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• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  Taran Killam

  Trying, Stuff, Taught

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

  Iris Murdoch

  Tragic, Parting

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Green Knight”, p.58, Open Road Media

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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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• The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Careers, Long

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• An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

  Theodore Bikel

  Fashion, Thinking, Done

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• When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly.

  Lee Greenwood

  Cities, United States, News

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• The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Guy, Nine

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• What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

  Bill Robinson

  Illinois, People, House

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• When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.

  Debra Dean

  Art, Writing, Waiting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

  Idina Menzel

  Musical, Truth Is, I Love Music

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• When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.

  Nicola Peltz

  Mom, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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