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Theatre Quotes
"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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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
43
"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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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."
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"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
40
"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."
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"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
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"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
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"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"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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