Theater Quotes - Page 38

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  Sade Adu

  Play, Want, Height

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• I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Skills, Want, Different

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

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• I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  "My Journey Through The Games" by Jacqueline Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

  Mireille Enos

  Drama, Done, Stuff

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• When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

  Mireille Enos

  New York, Years, Interesting

  "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2011.

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• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

  Alex Flinn

  Stars, Writing, Ambition

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• I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

  Sutton Foster

  Long, Pace, World

  "Bunheads actress Sutton Foster on her transition from stage to screen". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

  Sutton Foster

  Character, Talking, Lasts

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• I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Periods, Deals, Values

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

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• When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Valuable, Knows

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• I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

  David Cassidy

  Team, Player, Musician

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• I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Sitting, Rooms, Feels

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• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  Rachel Dratch

  Scene, Dartmouth, Whole

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• Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

  Josh Gad

  Book, Opportunity, Cost

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• For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

  Linda Hunt

  Beautiful, Ideas, Actors

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• They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Directors, Actors, Television

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.

  Colin Hanks

  Different, Video, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Influential, Film

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• When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

  Jill Hennessy

  Dream, Say Anything, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?

  Kathryn Hahn

  Anchorman, Cameras, Done

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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• I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

  Keith Haring

  Real, School, College

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Rehearsal, Periods, Knows

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• I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Film, Mediums

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

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