Theatre Quotes - Page 9

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

  Augusto Boal

  Weapons, Reason

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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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• With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

  Willem Dafoe

  Ready

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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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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• I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.

  Taylor Schilling

  Believe, School, College

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• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  Ian Ziering

  Broadway, Modeling

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• I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

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• In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

  Anna Chancellor

  Actors, Normal, Anxious

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Saws, Royal

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• Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

  Darren Boyd

  Choices, Pieces, Film

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Nice, Fans, Strange

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• Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.

  Brian F. O'Byrne

  New York, Home, Wells

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• I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, Thinking, Culture

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble]. That's all I live for. That's what I care about. There's no dough in it. Nothing to do but lose money. But it's all from the heart, and that's why it's so much fun.

  Orson Bean

  Jobs, Fun, Heart

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• I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

  Ashley Jensen

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

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• I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

  Kenneth Branagh

  Breathing, Want, Bones

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• I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m doing this play.’ He said, ‘Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in school’

  Dane DeHaan

  Teacher, School, Class

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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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• I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

  Lea Salonga

  Film And Television, Television, Film

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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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• 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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• I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Ghouls, Keys, Two

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• Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

  Mel Torme

  Chicago, Hollywood, Broadway

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• I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

  Louise Jameson

  Thinking, Space, Quirky

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