Theatre Quotes - Page 27

• I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

  James Cromwell

  Cleveland, London, Birth

  "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: John and James Cromwell of A .45 at 50th". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2010.

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• I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Scared, Knows

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  Willem Dafoe

  Exercise, Vices, Different

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Different, Actors, Film

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• When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Roles, Way, Illusion

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

  Harvey Fierstein

  People, Want, Way

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• I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Two, Play

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• I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

  Lady Gaga

  Committed, Intermission, Wholeheartedly

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• My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Art, Crazy, College

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Jennifer Garner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  Lady Gregory

  Years, People, Advice

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Musical, Classic Movie, Mum

  "Jake Gyllenhaal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  Mark Haddon

  Cities, Oxford, Space

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• I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

  Woody Harrelson

  People, Parks, England

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

  Julie Harris

  Beautiful, Play, Symphony

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• I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Listening, Losing, Shuffling

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

  Helen Hayes

  Play, Worst, Fugue

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 14, 1968.

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• At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

  Jim Henson

  Art, Years, Design

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• In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Journey, Discovery

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• I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Military, Years, Two

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1992.

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• Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

  Marc Jacobs

  Inspiration, Museums, Creative

  "Marc Jacobs to leave Louis Vuitton". Interview with Murray Healy, www.dazeddigital.com. October 2, 2013.

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• From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

  Kevin James

  Play, Community Theatre, Opening Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Fall, Who I Am

  "I was just waiting for my time". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2007.

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• I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

  Kevin McCloud

  Successful, Designer, Grew

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• From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

  Ewan McGregor

  Drama, School, Years

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• I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thrill, Seeing

  "Ewan McGregor: questions from the floor". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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