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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."
52
"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."
35
"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."
29
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
28
"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."
28
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
28
"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
27
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
27
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
27
"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."
25
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
25
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
24
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
24
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
24
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
24
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
23
"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."
23
"I don't think about going back to the theater."
23
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
23
"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."
22
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
22
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
21
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience."
21
"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
21
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
20
"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."
20
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
20
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
20
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
20
"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?"
20
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
20
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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