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Theatre Quotes


"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."


"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."


"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."


"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."



"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."


"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."


"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."


"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."


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


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


"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."


"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."


"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."


"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."


"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."


"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."


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


"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."


"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."


"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."


"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."


"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."


"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."


"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."


"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."


"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."


"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."


"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?"


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


"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."


"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."


"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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