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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."
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"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
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"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."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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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 can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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"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."
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"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
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"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
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"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
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"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"I don't think about going back to the theater."
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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."
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"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."
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"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
15
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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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."
15
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
15
"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."
15
"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
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"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
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"I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
14
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
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"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."
14
"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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