Theatre Quotes - Page 29

• I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

  Jill Scott

  Creativity, College, Dropping Out

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• In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Respect, Drama, Self

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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• When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Insecure, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 6, 2012.

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• Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

  Dan Stevens

  Batteries, Speak, Coming Back

  "STAGE TO SCREENS: Dan Stevens, From "Downton Abbey" Heir to Broadway's The Heiress". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.playbill.com. November 13, 2012.

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• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

  Tom Stoppard

  Broadway Theatre, Different, Littles

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• Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

  Lee Strasberg

  Motivational, Emotional, Acting

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• Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

  Elaine Stritch

  Stranger, Audience

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• Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Men, Political

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• What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

  Pete Townshend

  Drama, Thinking, Trying

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Needs, Theater, Reminders

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

  Meredith Vieira

  Character, Independent, Fiction

  "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  School, Years, Boston

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• Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Reality, Years, Degrees

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July, 2005.

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• I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

  Julie Walters

  Hero, Acting

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• I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.

  Kerry Washington

  Mother, Children, Home

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• The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

  Peter Weir

  Watches, Film, Silent

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• Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Tables And Chairs, Justice, Church

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• The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

  Augusto Boal

  Character, Thinking, Action

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• Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Needs, Done, Safe

  John Patrick Shanley (1991). “The Big Funk: A Casual Play”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, New Orleans, Phones

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• It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Difficult, Wells

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Names, Television, Scripts

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• On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Hands, Directors, Cinema

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Television, Active

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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