Theater Quotes - Page 34

• Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

  Moss Hart

  India, Humbling, Honorable

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• The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Behavior, Consoling

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

  Moss Hart

  Writing, Years, Acting

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

  Pearl Cleage

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• I don't think about going back to the theater.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking

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• I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

  Al Pacino

  Running, Careers, Fleeing

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Actors, Done, Broadway

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• I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Kids, Ethos, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

  Rutger Hauer

  Beautiful, Two, Long

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• Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

  Bill Pullman

  Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

  Jerry Orbach

  Tv Shows, Worry, Want

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

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• I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Desire, Connections

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

  Erika Slezak

  Might, Kind

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• I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

  Minka Kelly

  School, Littles, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

  Hayley Atwell

  Feelings, Cameras, Done

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.

  Paget Brewster

  Drama, Adventure, Done

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• We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

  Samantha Barks

  Mines

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• I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

  Samantha Barks

  Careers, Musical, Doe

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, College, Play

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• I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

  Bob Balaban

  Mean, Ideas, Special

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

  Bob Balaban

  Years, Chicago, My Family

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• Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

  Bob Balaban

  Play, Hooked

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I come from straight theater.

  Brian Baumgartner

  "Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) Accounts for The Office's Success". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. February 1, 2007.

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