Theatre Quotes - Page 26

• Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.

  Alistair Beaton

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt completely at home. I remember feeling a genuine wave of happiness and of feeling complete.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Taken, Home, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In theatre you can't ad lib, so you want to pick really good material, like David Mamet or Shakespeare or whatever. You want to be really careful about what you do. But in the movies, you do have more wiggle-room. You do have more opportunities to improvise. It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fun, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't work in banks and they don't work for pharmaceutical companies. They teach drama, or they may be theatre directors. That's why I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.

  Steve Coogan

  Teacher, Drama, Gay

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre. I never lost that I think part of that is growing up gay and part is growing up overweight. You never lose that, and I never want to lose touch with that whimsy, that sense of innocence. I also love the reaction it elicits in people. I like that it makes other people happy.

  Brad Goreski

  Growing Up, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. For television and theatre - well, for theater, there's some auditioning that has to happen, just for them to know that you can sing it, and how you'd take on the part. But for TV, things are getting a little better with, "Would you like to be a part of this?" But that's really for one - night things. It sounds like a pompous answer, if I say people are calling me to ask me to do things.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Night, People, Different

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned set of muscles and I sometimes defer to actors who are better trained. But at the times I do want a shot, I'll go for it, especially if the piece speaks to me and the opportunity comes up. The immediate response from a theatre audience is so thrilling, affirming, and soul-feeding; to know how you've affected an audience at curtain can be ego-blowing, both good and bad.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Opportunity, Honest, Speak

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  Reeve Carney

  Art, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Art, Support

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time it's this theatre for various kinds of cruelty. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but the worst possible behaviour is sort of allowed for. It looks to me like an endlessly rich container for really terrible drama, but also pretty grand love. It accommodates such a variety of feeling in such a natural way, and it feels so relatable, and yet it's such a funny construct, socially, the family.

  Ben Marcus

  Loyalty, Drama, Work Out

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• Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Lying, Past

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Truth Is, Proportion, Chiefs

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

  Theodore Bikel

  Artist, Labels, Body

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• This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Europe, America, Intellectual

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• I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Feels, Australian

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• I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

  David Bowie

  Numbers, Important, Wheels

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview" by Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  Zach Braff

  Littles, London, Bigs

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• I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

  Sarah Brightman

  Focus, Musical, Intimacy

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• In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

  Meg Cabot

  Art, School, Writing

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• My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

  Kim Cattrall

  Trying, England, Film

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• The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

  Kim Cattrall

  Roles, Film

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• Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

  Kim Cattrall

  Done, Again And Again

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Months, Pockets

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• I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

  Joan Collins

  Benefits, Nine, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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