Theatre Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• 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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• The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

  Arthur Darvill

  Elements, London, Staring

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

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• When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

  Arthur Darvill

  World, Puppets, Brilliant

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

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• My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Father, Important, Actors

  "Yahoo! Exclusive: Former BQ leader Gilles Duceppe 'not impressed' with Justin Trudeau". Interview with Andy Radia, ca.news.yahoo.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

  Jean Dujardin

  Light, Energy, Hollywood

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

  Jim Dale

  Commitment, Careers, Demand

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

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• Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Opposites, Desire, Hollywood

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• Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Games, Play, People

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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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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Stage, Terrible

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• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Issues, People, Church

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

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• The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Acting, Film And Television, Term

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

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• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Growing Up, People, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Parent, Nonsense

  "Oral history interview with Josef Albers". Interview with Sevim Fesci, New Haven, Connecticut, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  Karen Allen

  Running, New York, Moving

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

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