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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
"I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket."
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
Explore more quotes by Estelle Parsons
"I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater."
"But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different."
"In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience."
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do."
"There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors."
"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."
"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."
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