Theater Quotes - Page 23

• I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

  Audra McDonald

  Home, Found

  "Audra McDonald Goes Back Home With New Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2013.

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  Patrick Stewart

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

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• I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

  Raul Julia

  Reality, Parent, Special

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• Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

  Treat Williams

  Successful, Tv Shows, Long

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

  Michelle Branch

  Geek, Choir

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  Zosia Mamet

  Giving, Alive, Hours

  "Next Gen 2012: Actresses", www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  Eddie Cahill

  Television, Merit, Substitutes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

  Caroline Blakiston

  Stars, War, People

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• Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future.
  Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.

  Ilan Stavans

  Memories, Father, Men

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• The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Narrative, Language, Film

  "Immersed in Movies: Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Climbs ‘The Tree of Life’" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

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• I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.

  Allen Covert

  Country, Kids, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.

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• When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

  Diego Luna

  Girl, Growing Up, Heart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

  David James

  School, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

  Mark Hamill

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Mark Hamill can't escape 'Star Wars' spotlight". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

  Steven Berkoff

  Form

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• The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

  Steven Berkoff

  Looks, Garbage, Mainstream

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• I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Power, Dining

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• I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

  Romany Malco

  Grandmother, Film

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• I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Fall, Years, Long

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• It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.

  Herman Edwards

  Reality, Ravens, League

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• More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Real, Hands

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• When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

  Julie Taymor

  Kings, Reality, Thinking

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