Theatre Quotes - Page 38

• This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

  Thomas Traherne

  World, Kingdoms, Righteous

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.

  Alexander Herzen

  Simple, Men, Vortex

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• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

  Marisa Tomei

  Night, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

  Alec Guinness

  Years, Villa, September

  Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”

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• Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

  Moss Hart

  Heart, Play, People

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

  Moss Hart

  Sadism, Kind, Judgment

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

  Moss Hart

  Behavior, Theater, Consoling

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Lucky, Phrases

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  Edward T. Hall

  People, Experts, Needs

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• I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.

  Rutger Hauer

  Father, Thinking, Eight

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• I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

  Jim Henson

  Design, Acting, Littles

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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

  Howard Barker

  Character, Achievement, Anxiety

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.

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• I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

  Howard Barker

  Elements, Impossible, Language

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• When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

  Peter Hambleton

  Kids, Years, Two

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• When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

  Howard Barker

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

  Christian Lacroix

  Children, Ballet, Opera

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• I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

  Sam Claflin

  Football, School, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

  Len Cariou

  Jobs, Acting, Roles

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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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