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Theatre Quotes
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
36
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
36
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
35
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
35
"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
35
"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
34
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
34
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
33
"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
33
"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
33
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
33
"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."
32
"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?"
32
"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
32
"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
31
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
31
"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
30
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
27
"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
27
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
24
"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far."
23
"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
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