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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."
28
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
9
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
8
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
8
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
7
"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."
6
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
6
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
6
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
5
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
5
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
5
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
4
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
4
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
4
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
4
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
4
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
4
"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."
4
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
4
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
4
"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
4
"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."
4
"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
4
"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
4
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
4
"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."
4
"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
4
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
4
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
3
"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."
3
"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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