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Theatre Quotes
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
"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."
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
"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."
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
"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."
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
"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."
"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."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
"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."
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
"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?"
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience."
"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."
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
"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."
"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
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