Theater Quotes - Page 10

• [Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

  Andre Holland

  Past, Years, Focus

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• [Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Fashion, Drama, Princess

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• My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Dad, Doctors, Extroverts

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• I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

  John Lithgow

  Father, Lakes, Ohio

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• I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Phrases, Actors

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• When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you know, that - I mean, we were surrounded by English crew members that could hardly keep themselves together. They were, "Here comes the guy in the dog suit." They made fun of us, which was OK. But the first time I was sitting in a theater, and I saw all the effects in, and the big ship flew over the audience, and the sound rumbled, I pretty much thought we were close to home.

  Harrison Ford

  Dog, Stars, Fun

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• I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Doe, Sometimes

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• I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

  Judd Nelson

  Giving, Kind, Stella

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• The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

  Richard Burr

  Political, Way, Pollution

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

  Alton Brown

  Mother, Degrees, Broadway

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with Joe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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• I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  People, Musical, Want

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• It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

  Erykah Badu

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Art, Couple

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• I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, College, People

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• I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, People, Broadway

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've heard that they're going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I've actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.

  Brent Spiner

  Fun, Smart, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

  Liv Ullmann

  Wonderful, Film

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

  Denzel Washington

  Generations, Actors, Moments

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Acting, Shooting

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.

  Howard Rheingold

  Party, Night, Two

  Source: medium.com

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• When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

  Howard Rheingold

  Drama, Made, Strain

  Source: medium.com

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• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Parent, Inspired

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Wray Nerely, the character in Con Man, he actually had a role in Rogue One, but he got cut. It sucked. John Swartz, the producer, is a big fan of Con Man. I even got to screen Con Man while we were shooting Star Wars. They had a theater there, and they let me screen one of the little 10-minute episodes for everyone. What sucked was I had to follow Star Wars.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, War, Character

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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