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I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.
Nico Santos
Job
Design
Changes
Would
Dress
Shakespeare
Costume
Costumes
Stuff
Major
Chekhov
Got
Quick
Fix
Want
Theater
Wardrobe
Them
Working
Acting
Company
Actor
Eventually
Switched
Assistant
I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'
Nico Tortorella
Three
Mercury
Over
Years
South
Did
Tavern
Theater
Worked
Show
Port
Actually
I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.
Nicole Ari Parker
Love
Stage
Live
Live Audience
Dressing
Also
Make-Believe
Audience
Up
Being
Theater
I always loved theater, growing up, and I was always like, 'Wow, it would be so fun to be an actor.' But my next thought was, like, 'I'm from Nowhere, Maine.' You know, no one's from Maine!
Nicole Maines
You
Thought
Would
Would-Be
Wow
Maine
Like
Know
Always
Up
Loved
Theater
Next
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Nowhere
There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Ride
Try
Bicycle
See
Some
Over
New
Around
Get
York
New York
Theater
Many
Things
Here
Plays
When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.
Nina Arianda
Time
Day
Great
Daily
Me
Mother
Kid
Ukrainian
Signed
Kind
Throughout
She
Learn
Make-Believe
Because
Came
Go
Up
Children
Wanted
Stories
Theater
Created
Really
English
Groups
Preschool
Routine
Playing
When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.
Nina Arianda
Family
Training
School
Dance
High
Dream
Would
High School
Instead
Taking
New
Supportive
New Jersey
Continue
Germany
Get
Moved
Theater
Lessons
Jersey
Credit
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
Me
Dance
Before
Group
Back
Kid
Signed
Never
Looked
Opera
Sing
Up
Theater
Play
Preschool
I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
Nolan Gould
Mom
Class
Smart
Three
Enough
Brother
Followed
He
Put
Like
Obviously
Him
Being
Theater
Really
Acting
Challenged
Started
I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
Norbert Leo Butz
Whatever
Films
Small
Sort
Left
Roles
Shoots
Just
Theater
Little
Series
Here
I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'
Norman Lloyd
Depression
You
Thought
Lawyer
Become
Saw
Something
Lawyers
Driving
Badly
Supposed
Well
Were
Off
Get
Going
Where
Anyway
Theater
Might
Used
Imagine
The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.
Norman Lloyd
Education
Music
People
Money
First
Jews
Writers
Had
Part
Clear
Over
Still
Came
Were
Artistic
Just
Artists
Biggest
Theater
Biggest Things
Century
Actor
Lives
Things
Early
Two
I knew a lot of people who were beaten by the Depression, but there was still a feeling of positiveness among people: everyone thought it's got to get better. We were all trying to get the country back on its feet. There was a feeling that you could do anything, and this was certainly very true in the theater.
Norman Lloyd
Depression
You
People
Better
Thought
Feeling
Country
Back
Everyone
Could
Beaten
Knew
True
Feet
Got
Still
Were
Lot
Very
Get
Trying
Anything
Theater
Certainly
Who
Among
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit.
Ntozake Shange
Life
Me
Happy
Try
Peg
Broadway
Having
Never
Buildings
Go
Off
Fit
Very
Bunch
Square
Did
Intended
Just
Being
Theater
Whole
Round
I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.
Olesya Rulin
Good
School
Films
Channel
Out
High
Would
High School
Small
Through
Take
Developed
Like
Because
Western
Very
Shoot
Did
Anything
Theater
Movies
Really
Disney
Act
Utah
Funds
Program
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Olivia Wilde
Love
Angeles
Pursue
Fell
Los
Los Angeles
Moved
Graduation
After
Theater
Acting
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
Omari Hardwick
Amazing
Broadway
Brought
Beacon
Davis
Fences
Denzel
Denzel Washington
Did
Theater
Washington
Viola
In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
Orson Welles
Day
You
Down
Thirties
Days
Hour
Real
Line
Were
Any
Which
Theater
Stand
Street
Night
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
Oscar Isaac
Think
Heroic
Way
Must
Some
Protagonist
Conditioned
Whereas
Theater
Movies
Reason
Necessary
The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
Oscar Isaac
Remember
First
Seeing
Darth
Come
Return
Off
Shock
Movie
Theater
Helmet
Moment
Jedi
Vader
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Oskar Werner
Films
Married
Only
Mistress
Am
Theater
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner
Films
Married
Mistress
Theater
Movies
It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
Pablo Schreiber
Work
Love
Great
You
Nothing
TV
Instantaneous
Replace
Get
Theater
Storytelling
Film
Film And TV
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
Pat Conroy
Become
Meet
Saw
Kids
Poets
Inspired
Write
Simply
Were
Festival
Theater
Movies
Who
Novelists
Now
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
Patricia Heaton
Love
Travel
Husband
Before
Other
Our
Books
Our Lives
Kids
Having
Both
Had
Were
Lot
Theater
Really
Working
Fun
Each
Traveling
Lives
Enjoying
You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
Patricia Richardson
Work
Good
Me
You
Soul
First
Think
About
Someplace
Reminded
First Place
Am
Go
Where
Wanted
Place
Theater
Act
Your
Why
Need
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