Repertory Quotes

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context. Nicholas Kristof
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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time. Annette Bening
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I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way. Anthony Hopkins
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When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky. Blythe Danner
Beginning Young Could Also Go Repertory Did Young Actor Loved Company Lucky Actor
My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their stages. That was the theatre that nurtured me to expand as an artist. Colman Domingo
Me Theatre Job First Nurtured Berkeley Out Touring Educational Repertory Expand Artist Stages Professional Eventually Play Starred Started
At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years. David Morse
Theatre Opportunity Member Pretty Boston Had Performed Became Years Repertory Quickly Six Theater
I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23. David Suchet
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Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. Ewan McGregor
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham. Harold Pinter
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference. Ian Mckellen
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I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes. Jeffrey Combs
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My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from. Kate Winslet
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When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going. Lea Salonga
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout. M. C. Gainey
Car City Shakespeare Through Studying Rob Chekhov Years Repertory Jump Get Bank Screaming Wanted After Theater Regional Realized Really Bust Tear
I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters. Michael Caine
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But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. Michael Tilson Thomas
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South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. Richard Stanley
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Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers. Robert Gottlieb
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Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at. Robert Gottlieb
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I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company. Robert Wagner
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It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. Robert Wilson
Important Something Something New New Also Operas Traditional Repertory Should
Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water. Siobhan Davies
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We all need strategies for facing unknown repertory. Steven Stucky
Unknown Facing Repertory Strategies Need
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette. Tom Hanks
About Vast Colors Part Repertory Being Theater Many Whole Palette
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen. William Kircher
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Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company, all running back and forth between the coasts and between different shows. There is a wealth of great character actors, who show up, here and there, on different shows. I love the fact that we're allowed to do that. Denis O'Hare
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