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

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

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"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."

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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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"Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while."

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"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."

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"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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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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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."

Cate Blanchett, Australian Actress

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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

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"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."

Megan Gallagher, American Actress

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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."

David Amram, American Composer

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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

Steven Berkoff, English Actor

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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

Laura San Giacomo, American Actress

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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."

Christopher Parker, English Actor

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"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while."

"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

"Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history."

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"So I just play the character, I play the lines."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."

"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."

"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."

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."