Theatre Quotes - Page 8

• Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

  Christopher Lee

  Horror, Description

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

  Francesca Annis

  Hard Work, Taught, Hard

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• But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

  Edgar Berman

  Fun, Cancer, Party

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  David Amram

  Uncles, Years, Dukes

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• ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Mean, Ideas, Bullshit

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• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  T. J. Thyne

  Land, Different Experiences, World

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• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Florida, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Skills, Realizing, Designer

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• We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

  Jim Dale

  Museums, Technique, Custodians

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

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• They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Running, New York, Oscars

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Fog, Two, Lasts

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time it's this theatre for various kinds of cruelty. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but the worst possible behaviour is sort of allowed for. It looks to me like an endlessly rich container for really terrible drama, but also pretty grand love. It accommodates such a variety of feeling in such a natural way, and it feels so relatable, and yet it's such a funny construct, socially, the family.

  Ben Marcus

  Loyalty, Drama, Work Out

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• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  Debra Messing

  Friendship, New York, Gay

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• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Justin Timberlake

  Movie, Simple, Sneak In

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• I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Relationship, Thinking, Collaboration

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• Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

  Celeste Holm

  Flare Up, Forever, Hot

  "Fictional character: Karen". "All About Eve", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Actors, Want, Too Much

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• Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  School, Farce, Bills

  "Why do women go nuts for me? Benedict Cumberbatch on his weird life as a sex symbol" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2012.

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• In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.

  Wesley Snipes

  Two, Challenges, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Actors, Feedback, Given

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• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  David Edward Kirk

  Kings, Riding, Elements

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• Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

  Augusto Boal

  Weapons, Reason

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• Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

  Maureen Stapleton

  Home, Odds, Insanity

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• I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

  Paul Dano

  Light, Down And, Littles

  "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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