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Theatre Quotes
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
34
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
12
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
11
"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."
11
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
10
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
10
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
9
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
9
"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
9
"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."
9
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
8
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
8
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
8
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
8
"I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek."
8
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
8
"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
8
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
8
"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."
7
"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist."
7
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
7
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
7
"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
7
"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
7
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
7
"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
7
"They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down."
7
"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
7
"I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own."
7
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
7
"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
7
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
7
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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