Theater Quotes - Page 30

• For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

  Kate Burton

  Drama, Long, Roles

  "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

  Drew Lachey

  School, Wife, Musical

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• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  Hamish Linklater

  Home, Always Trying, Grew Up

  "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  Samantha Barks

  Passion, Musical, Found

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• Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

  Paula Vogel

  Impossible, Conversation, Rhetoric

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• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  Maximilian Schell

  Europe, Energy, Entertainment

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• In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Europe, Long, People

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• We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

  Linda Lavin

  People, Holocaust, Genocide

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• I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

  Ken Curtis

  New York, Singers, Frank

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• Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.

  Richard Posner

  Children, Government, Media

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• When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

  Blair Underwood

  Business, School, Talking

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• At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

  Peter Stone

  Friends, Night, People

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• Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

  Dianne Wiest

  Money, Pressure

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• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Pride, Son, Gay

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• When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

  Bobby Vinton

  Girl, Character, Dancing

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• I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

  Kel Mitchell

  Two Sides, Chicago, South

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• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Ukulele, Actors, Modus Operandi

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• I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Jobs, New York, Television

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• Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

  Austin Peck

  Stars, Independent, Lakes

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• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  Jenny Downham

  Years, People, Community

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• I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

  John Michael Higgins

  Sports, Technique, Fans

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

  Melissa Rauch

  Teacher, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Struggle, Games

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• God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  A. Alfred Taubman

  Auctions, Would Be, World

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• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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