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Theatre Quotes
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
77
"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
68
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
58
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience."
56
"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."
54
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
53
"They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down."
52
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
52
"I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat."
51
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
51
"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."
51
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
50
"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."
49
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
49
"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."
48
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
48
"I don't think about going back to the theater."
48
"I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own."
47
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
46
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
46
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
46
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
45
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
45
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
45
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
44
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
44
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
44
"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
44
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
43
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
43
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
42
"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
42
"I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek."
42
"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
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