Theater Quotes - Page 16

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  Val Kilmer

  Creative, Challenges, Making Money

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• I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

  Alan King

  Fun, Hate, Years

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• I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

  Eartha Kitt

  Thinking

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• I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Philosophical

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

  Tony Kushner

  Criticism

  "Tony Kushner: Strong plays, strong opinions". Interview With John Moore, www.denverpost.com. January 28, 2010.

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• There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Play, Way, Illusion

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• But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

  Tony Kushner

  Mother, Country, Thinking

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• I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

  Tony Kushner

  Believe, Thinking, Debate

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• I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Yale, Planning

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• When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

  Diane Lane

  New York, Parent, Mama

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• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  Jessica Lange

  Teacher, Years, Voice

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

  Denis Leary

  Drama, Hollywood, Able

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• In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

  Denis Leary

  Years, People, Challenges

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

  Denis Leary

  People, Battle, Cameras

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Children, Hippie

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• I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

  Damian Lewis

  Done

  "Actor Damian Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

  Sophia Loren

  Shy, Persons, Shy Person

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• I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, Crazy, Ideas

  "Christian Louboutin Opens Up About His Favorite Footwear, Famous Fans and Plans to Expand Into Some Unlikely Countries (Q&A)". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2011.

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• It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Opening Up

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• Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

  George Lucas

  Football, Night, Games

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• Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

  Norm MacDonald

  Thinking, Ems

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

  Seth MacFarlane

  College, Boston, Musical

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Giving, Musical, Buzz

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• Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

  John Madden

  Atmosphere, Audience, Seeing

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• Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

  John Malkovich

  School, Design, Lines

  "John Malkovich On Set Interview RED". Group interview, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

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