Theater Quotes - Page 28

• I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

  Idina Menzel

  Heart, Love Is, Eight

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• Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

  Eric Carle

  Life, Art, Sunset

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

  Marisa Tomei

  Experience, Acting, Kind

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Childhood, Shadow, Elements

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• The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

  Charles Ludlam

  Beautiful, Lying, Beautiful Lies

  "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• A theater without beer is just a museum

  Bertolt Brecht

  Beer, Museums

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• Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

  Adam Pascal

  Way, Good Things, Members

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• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Relaxation

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• My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

  Diane Paulus

  America, Directors, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

  Diane Paulus

  Art, Believe, Roots

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

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• At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

  Diane Paulus

  Mean, Voice, Giving

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

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• I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

  Diane Paulus

  Fall, Cutting, People

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

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• The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldnt open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldnt talk well.

  Gale Gordon

  Wall, Party, Men

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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Art, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Drama, School, College

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

  Christian Bale

  Actors, Done, Speak

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

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• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  Doris Day

  Jobs, Nice, Believe

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• New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Doe, Young

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• I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

  Emile Hirsch

  Memorable, Saws, Remember

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

  Emile Hirsch

  New York, Independent, Thinking

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• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  Morgan Freeman

  Names, Oregon, Eric

  "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

  Judi Dench

  Scripts, Firsts, Lord

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