Theatre Quotes - Page 31

• In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

  Robertson Davies

  Past, Audience Of One, Long

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

  Peter Gallagher

  Support, My Family, Enough

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• Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Play, Audience, Has Beens

  Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.

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• You can only do so much theatre.

  Victor Garber

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

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Needs

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Chekhov, Stage

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• I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

  John Mahoney

  Play, Age, Causes

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• I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

  Angela Kinsey

  Art, School, Program

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• When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Drama, School, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Auditions, Watches

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

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

  Richard O'Brien

  Creative, Different, Lucky

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• I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

  Richard O'Brien

  Drama, School, London

  Interview with Victoria Moore, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Training, Done, Broadway

  "Exclusive Interview – Stephen Tobolowsky" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 25, 2009.

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• I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

  Jack Wagner

  Sports, Independent, Thinking

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

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• Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

  Eve Myles

  Play, Would Be, Should

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• Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!

  Joseph Mazzello

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

  Seamus Dever

  Commitment, Single Man, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

  Roxanne McKee

  Dream, Strong, Growing Up

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• I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

  Rutina Wesley

  Vegas, Born, Raised

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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 get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

  Deborah Bull

  Shoes, Luck, Drink

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• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Pieces, Opera, Formal

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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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