Theatre Quotes - Page 30

• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  Kara Lindsay

  Sports, Drama, School

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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• But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

  Janet McTeer

  Jobs, Drama, Coffee

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

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• I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

  Paul McGann

  Fun, Nice, Way

  "This much I know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Boys, Giving, Earth

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• As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Play, Hull, Stories

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• I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.

  Sylvester McCoy

  America, Limos, Toilets

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• Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

  Laz Alonso

  Eye, Squares, Miracle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Drama, Done, Costumes

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• When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Drama, School, Training

  "'I think I'm quite good at my job'". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Next Week, Years

  Interview with Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. July 08, 1995.

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• I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Television, Film

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• When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Saws, Firsts

  "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

  Peter Gallagher

  Lasts, Draws, Breaths

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• My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

  Missi Pyle

  Television, Film, My Family

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• We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

  Stefanie Powers

  Support, Age, Bereft

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• Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

  Kelly Reilly

  Heart, Want, Tvs

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

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• I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

  Shirley Eaton

  Opposites, Bob, Royal

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• Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

  John Boyega

  Acting, Lessons, Film

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• My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

  Morena Baccarin

  Uncles, Directors, Actors

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

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• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Careers, Live Theatre

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• Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

  Viva Bianca

  Letting Go, Want, Viva

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• I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

  Amanda Burton

  Drama, School, Cutting

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• I trained in the theatre.

  Danny Boyle

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• People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

  Edward Burns

  Art, Home, Thinking

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