Live Theatre Quotes

• In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

  Tristan Bernard

  Want, Theater, Audience

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• You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

  Susan Stroman

  Heart, Two, Broadway

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

  Steve Earle

  Important, Records, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.

  Anthony Warlow

  Art, Night, Perfect

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• To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

  Philip Auslander

  Moving, Television, Examination

  Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge

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• Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

  Raymond Cruz

  Play, Television, Leisure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Ideas, Lovely, Fans

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• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Teacher, Character

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• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Careers, Personality

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• The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?

  Edward Albee

  Art, Land, Television

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.10, Da Capo Press

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• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  Mike Figgis

  Art, Film, Used

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• I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Dream

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