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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."
71
"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."
59
"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."
50
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience."
48
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
47
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
47
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
47
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
44
"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."
44
"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."
44
"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."
44
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
44
"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."
43
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
43
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
43
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
41
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
41
"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."
40
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
40
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
40
"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
40
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
39
"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
39
"I don't think about going back to the theater."
39
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
39
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
38
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
38
"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
38
"I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own."
38
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
38
"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."
37
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
37
"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."
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