Theatre Quotes - Page 36

• When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.

  Bo Burnham

  Men, Thinking, Cameras

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• I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.

  Tom Lenk

  Heart, Old Fashioned, Majors

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• Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

  Toby Stephens

  Cutting, Play, Way

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• I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

  Young Jean Lee

  Thinking, Way, Found

  "Real Gone Gir". Interview with Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  Lee Hall

  Play, Trying, Important

  "Songs for a Sunderland sex-farce". Interview with Charlotte Higgin, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

  Howard Barker

  Play, Rejection, Theater

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• The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

  Wernher von Braun

  Military, War, Mars

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• As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

  Rupert Holmes

  Fun, Years, Actors

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• The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Looks

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• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  Caterina Murino

  Brother, Doctors, Careers

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

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• I've actually been looking at plays, and I have read a bunch of stuff. I would love to do it. I have thought about theatre on and off over the years, but other things kept getting in the way. Maybe now's the time.

  Jerzy Jeszke

  Years, Play, Stuff

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• The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives Spiderwick a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn into the movie even further and feel as if they are actually part of the story.

  Mark Canton

  Giving, Fans, Stories

  "Paramount Pictures' The Spiderwick Chronicles to Be Released in IMAX". movieweb.com. October 30, 2007.

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• I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Home, Towns

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Remember, Forget

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Absurd, Agree

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• Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

  Anton Chekhov

  Play, Arms, Able

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

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• I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Believe, Order

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• I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

  Jenny Agutter

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

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• My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

  Didi Conn

  Summer, Teacher, Jobs

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• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  Don Cheadle

  People, Want, Able

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• I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

  Len Cariou

  Careers, Hollywood, Calling

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• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Teacher, Character

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• I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

  Simon Callow

  Way, Facts, Love Story

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

  Tom Conti

  Fun, Television, Want

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

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