Stage Play Quotes - Page 2

• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

  Robert Englund

  Play, Lines, Nightmare

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

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• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  Gary Gygax

  Running, Moving, Rpgs

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• The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Play, Soul

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

  Richard Baxter

  Hate, Moving, Play

  Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

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• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Play, Acting

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• We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Thinking, Play, Records

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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