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"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
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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."
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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."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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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."
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"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
Mother
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Theatre
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
Comedy
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
People
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
Music
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Money
"A close-up on screen can say all a song can."
Music
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