Theatre Quotes - Page 25

• Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

  David Harewood

  Summer, Afternoon, Wonderful

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• I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

  Luke Kirby

  Brain, Wire, Would Be

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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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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• My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

  Francesca Jackson

  School, Player, Class

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.

  Karen Walton

  Art, Couple, Drama

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

  Sarah Steele

  Jesus, Home, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

  Paul Dano

  Light, Down And, Littles

  "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Leisure

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  T. J. Thyne

  Land, Different Experiences, World

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• Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

  Maureen Stapleton

  Home, Odds, Insanity

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• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  Ian Ziering

  Broadway, Modeling

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• I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.

  Taylor Schilling

  Believe, School, College

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• Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Views, Action, Consciousness

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

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• In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

  Anna Chancellor

  Actors, Normal, Anxious

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• If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

  Robert Pattinson

  New York, Cities, Bored

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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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• In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.

  Wesley Snipes

  Two, Challenges, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

  Charlie Cox

  Dream, London

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Drama, School, Hated

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• Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

  Darren Boyd

  Choices, Pieces, Film

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• There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

  Ken Stott

  Actors, Areas, Knows

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• Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  School, Farce, Bills

  "Why do women go nuts for me? Benedict Cumberbatch on his weird life as a sex symbol" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2012.

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• I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

  Harriet Walter

  Interfaces, Protected, Dies

  "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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