Theater Quotes - Page 36

• The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Stories, Television

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• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  Alan Cumming

  Home, People, Different

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• Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Growing Up, Athlete, Felt

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• I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

  Bobby Cannavale

  New York, Home, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Art, Team

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

  Nina Arianda

  Mom, Kids, Play

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• Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

  Nina Arianda

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

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• I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

  Nina Arianda

  Jobs, Wine, Shoes

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• I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.

  Nina Arianda

  Hate, Mistake, Moving

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• I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

  Armand Assante

  Years, Film

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• I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

  Curtis Armstrong

  School, Kids, Fit

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

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

  Pauline Collins

  Thinking, Film, Losing Yourself

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• Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

  Pauline Collins

  Different, Actors, Engagement

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• If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Two, People

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

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• I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

  Anna Camp

  Jobs, Dallas, Firsts

  "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I'm afraid to do theater now.

  John Corbett

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• One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

  Linda Cardellini

  Voice, Faces, Favorites Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Branches

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

  Peter Dinklage

  Actors, Done, Shooting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Running, Actors, Doe

  "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

  Charles Durning

  Years, Play, Tvs

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• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Tea, Cups

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