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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."
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"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
Theatre
"It's true, I don't like the real world."
World
"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
Art
"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
Age
"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."
Music
"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
Civilization
"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."
Actor
"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
Writing
"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."
Trying
"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
Art
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