Theater Quotes - Page 21

• The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

  Loni Anderson

  Actresses, Whole Life, Wanted

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• My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

  Connie Britton

  Degrees, Backgrounds, Whole

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

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• I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

  Aida Turturro

  Teacher, New York, College

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Extroverts, Stuff, Easy

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

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• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  Laura San Giacomo

  New York, Pittsburgh, Carnegie

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

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• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  Alan Rickman

  Parent, Kind, Accidents

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• Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

  Jeremy Piven

  Jobs, People, Done

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• I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

  Eric Bogosian

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

  Carol Kane

  Art, People, Minorities

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• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

  Patrick Dempsey

  New York, Men, Play

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• As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

  Andrew Rannells

  Book, Musical, Actors

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I love doing both theater and television.

  Andrew Rannells

  Television

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

  Andrew Rannells

  Community, Used

  "QA: The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. June 9, 2011.

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• My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

  Alton Brown

  Real, College, Years

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• I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

  Susan Sullivan

  Running, New York, Blessed

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

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• I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

  Eric Stoltz

  Men, Able, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  Movie, College, Actors

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• I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

  Steve Zahn

  New York, Play, Guy

  "Q&A – Steve Zahn Says A Perfect Getaway Forced Him to Pay Attention". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

  Chris Cooper

  Thank You, Years, Technique

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• Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Technique, Cameras

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• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  Fay Wray

  Work, Moving, Looks

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• The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

  Ben Vereen

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Dedication

  Ben Vereen: Biography, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

  John Lithgow

  Looks, Stories, West

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• I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

  Stephen Moyer

  Wings, Television, World

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