Theatre Quotes - Page 38

• A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

  David G. Hays

  Important, Weak, Rigor

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• I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

  Christine Jones

  Space, Actors, Want

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• If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.

  Christine Jones

  Interesting, Design, Support

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• I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.

  Christine Jones

  Done, Scripts, Vibrations

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• A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

  G. Wilson Knight

  Waiting, Looks, Action

  G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

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• In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Simple, Needs, Speech

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• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Writing, Giving

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• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Pregnancy, Son, Singing

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• It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

  Noel Gayler

  Military, Views, Sea

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• Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

  Dick York

  Time, Firefighter, Radio

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• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  Nicholas Ray

  Opposites, Twenties, Different

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• I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

  Robert Ashley

  Would Be, Television, Opera

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• We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

  Carl Jung

  Drama, Moving, Heart

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

  Anna Faris

  Growing Up, Class, Roles

  "Scary Movie 4 - Anna Faris interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.

  David Tennant

  Fire, Circles, Actors

  "How Harry Potter Changed My Life: Part 3". www.radiotimes.com. July 21, 2011.

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• But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

  Beatrice Wood

  Art, America

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• Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

  Lucien Bourjeily

  Play, Smell, Want

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

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• I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

  Lusia Strus

  Bored, Choices, Connections

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• We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Guy, Stuff

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

  Sara Sheridan

  Adventure

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• It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

  Nicole Kidman

  Want, Shy, Natural

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 25, 2017

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• I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.'  This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.   Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!

  Richard M. Sherman

  Song, Style, Special

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• The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Thinking, Play

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