"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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Austin Peck, American Actor

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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

Jennifer Sky, American Actress

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

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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

Sherry Stringfield, American Actress

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"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

Christopher Durang, American Playwright

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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Russian Actor

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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

Tristan Bernard, French Playwright

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"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

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"Laughter can bring a new perspective."

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"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."

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"My parents didn't really know one another."

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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."

"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

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

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

Explore more quotes by Christopher Durang

"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."

"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

"Laughter can bring a new perspective."

"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."

"My parents didn't really know one another."

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."