Theater Quotes - Page 25

• At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

  George Washington

  Truth, Distance, Action

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Dog, Dirty, Thinking

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• We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

  Les Aspin

  Should Have, Done, Damage

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• John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

  James Berardinelli

  Action, Thrillers, These Days

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• Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred

  Ken Ludwig

  Mean, Acting, Three

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• Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

  Augusto Boal

  Actors, Done, Can Do

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

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

  Joseph Cornell

  Moon, Sea, White

  Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Art Museum (1967*). “An exhibition of works”

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• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

  Fiona Shaw

  Way, Repetition, Exciting

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

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• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  Fiona Shaw

  Theatre, Sometimes, Loathe

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• Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

  Tibor Fischer

  Mean, Doe, Cracks

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• I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

  Didi

  College, Two, Years

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• Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really it’s kind of the idea of turning the street into a stage and this sort of urban theater has a life of its own. If you have creative drive, and you need to manifest it, then you need some sort of medium to do that through. For me, it worked out with sculpture, and tape just is a means of doing sculpture.

  Mark Jenkins

  Mean, Ideas, Creative

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• What I don't have in theater is editing.

  Julie Taymor

  Editing

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• L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

  Matthew Ashford

  Two, Support, Towns

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• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  Gabriel Macht

  New York, Black, Mind

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.

  Robert Greenberg

  Children, Teaching, Successful

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• When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

  William Kraft

  Thinking, Play, Involved

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• Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

  Beah Richards

  Culture, Racist, Found

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• I come from a traditional theater background.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Surfing, Backgrounds, Traditional

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• The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

  Mary McCarthy

  Art, Brother, People

  "Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue". Mary McCarthy, The Reporter Magazine, July 1950.

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• In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Moving On, Musical, Moved On

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• Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

  Julia Bacha

  Important, Resistance, Causes

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• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

  Maurice Jarre

  Years, Interesting, Theatre

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

  Estelle Parsons

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