1588 Theater Quotes for You to Enjoy

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn. Gail Carson Levine

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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television. Gale Gordon

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I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do. Garret Dillahunt

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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time. Garrison Keillor

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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country. Garry Hynes

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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. Gary Sinise

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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked. Gary Sinise

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I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet. Gary Sinise

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When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I'd never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that. Gaten Matarazzo

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Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me. Gavin Creel

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Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a hard time dancing. I only applied there. Gayle Rankin

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'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater. Gbenga Akinnagbe

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In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting. Gene Simmons

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A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.' Genesis P-Orridge

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One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing. Geoff Johns

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I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. George C. Wolfe

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The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. George C. Wolfe

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When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. George C. Wolfe

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Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. George C. Wolfe

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The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show. George C. Wolfe

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. George C. Wolfe

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Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. George C. Wolfe

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After I finished working on the movie, I went back into the show again playing Riff, so it was an incredible time because I loved playing Riff in the theater and, of course, I loved playing Bernardo in the film. We had such a really beautiful time. We knew we were working on something of quality. George Chakiris

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If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric. George Lucas

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My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer. George MacKay

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