Theater Quotes - Page 18

• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Singing, Thrill, Founders

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• My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

  Martha Plimpton

  Mother, New York, Hollywood

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  Harold Prince

  Directors, Producers

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• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  Harold Prince

  Important, Looks, Feeding

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• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  Harold Prince

  Truthful, Tradition, Bigs

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• Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

  Harold Prince

  Thinking, Trends, Want

  "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview with Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

  Harold Prince

  Truth Is, Reason, Absurd

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• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  Harold Prince

  Musical, Way, Process

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• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  Harold Prince

  Missing, Musical, New Work

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• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

  Harold Prince

  Moving, Responsibility, Successful

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• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  Harold Prince

  Musical, Age, Golden

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• In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

  Pythagoras

  Life, Angel, Men

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  Harold Ramis

  Dvds, People, Reaching

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• We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Testing, Audience

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

  Brett Ratner

  Feelings

  "Brett Ratner goes for seasoned pros" by Sheigh Crabtree, www.today.com. November 3, 2004.

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• I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

  Robert Redford

  Character, Actors, Kind

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• It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

  Christopher Reeve

  Summer, School, Men

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• One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

  Martin Filler

  Eye, Age, Enlightenment

  Martin Filler (2007). “Makers of Modern Architecture”, New York Review of Books

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• I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Actors, Stage, Depends

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• When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lonely, Moving, Boys

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 01, 2013

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• I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Winter, Events

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• ...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

  Victor Hugo

  Moving, Next, Curtains

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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