Theatre Quotes - Page 32

• 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 gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Intelligent, People, Interesting

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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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• The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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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've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Dancer, Actresses, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.

  Ben Nicholas

  Sound, Backgrounds, Dodgers

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

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• Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

  David Naughton

  Musical, Musical Theatre, Familiar

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• I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

  Franco Nero

  Actors, Theatre Actors

  "Franco Nero: No escaping Django". Interview with Phelim O'Neil, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

  Ivor Novello

  Ordinary, Firsts, Appearance

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• I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Dialect, Half, England

  "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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• I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Mean, Years, Royal

  "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 met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

  Paul Nurse

  Art, Philosophy, Wife

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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 have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

  Richard O'Brien

  Jobs, Done, More Time

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

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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 first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.

  Clarke Peters

  Guy, Musician, Groups

  "Clarke Peters: 'Lester Freamon's the guy I'd like to grow up to be'". Interview with om Lamont, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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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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• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, People, Cameras

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• I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Ideas, Live Theatre, Lovely

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