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My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.
Rich Brian
Me
Dream
Collins
Onto
Put
Stuff
Theater
Dad
Phil
Phil Collins
I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!
Rich Brian
Old
Alexandria
Dream
Attack
Like
Drums
Years
Lot
Five
Bands
Listen
Theater
Asking
Used
Started
Playing
My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.
Rich Moore
Book
Passion
Old
First
Saw
Kid
Fuse
Seeing
Animation
Years
Jungle
Lit
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Really
I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.
Rich Moore
Culture
First
Ran
Saw
Kid
Laurel
Never
Knew
Were
Child
Movie
Theater
Meant
Who
Hardy
I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.
Richard C. Armitage
Television
Television Show
London
More
Since
New
Been
Than
Did
York
New York
Theater
Really
Working
Show
Lived
Ever
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
Richard C. Armitage
Work
Lose
Television
Out
Possible
New
Still
York
New York
Theater
Work Out
Your
Connection
Film
Film And Television
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
Richard Dreyfuss
Teacher
Me
Age
Community
Say
Had
Knew
Talent
She
Because
Got
Motivated
Decided
Theater
Movies
Then
Really
Reinforced
Plays
Jewish
Jewish Community
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Richard Foreman
Having
Audience
Theater
Now
Actor
Stare
Right
Started
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Richard Foreman
Hermit
Would
Would-Be
Theater
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
Richard Foreman
Love
Time
You
Too Much
Thought
Too
Emotional
Over
Involved
Make
Audience
Trying
Being
Theater
Them
Fifteen
Much
Actor
I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.
Richard Griffiths
Teacher
Me
Become
Kind
Would
Something
Rather
Casual
Know
Because
Want
Theater
Much
Teaching
Element
Keep
Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.
Richard Griffiths
You
Will
Think
Everything
Savvy
Broadway
See
Finer
Something
Sophisticated
Know
Most
Houses
Audience
Get
Want
Subtle
Anywhere
Theater
Here
Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.
Richard Kind
You
Half
Live
Dime
Shampoo
Lifetime
Put
Concentrated
Hours
Half Hours
Call
Doing
Hand
Get
Theater
Your
Play
Palm
Two
I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.
Richard Rodgers
Better
Think
Side
Musical
Broaden
Musical Theater
Oklahoma
Possibilities
Would
Someplace
Like
Mixed
West
West Side
West Side Story
Up
Story
Theater
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
Rick Baker
Generation
People
Television
Frankenstein
My Generation
Stuff
Up
Shock
So Many People
Grew
Theater
Package
Many
Mummy
Dracula
Universal
For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
Rick Perlstein
Conservative
Power
Before
Pay
Followers
Colossal
Leaders
Mostly
Court
Making
Source
Candidates
Theater
Them
Publicly
Symbolic
I remember the first time eating my chef's Caesar salad. It was just like one of those moments in the movie theater when everything gets quiet.
Rick Ross
Time
Remember
First
Everything
Those
Eating
Caesar
Like
Chef
First Time
Salad
Quiet
Gets
Just
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Moments
There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.
Rick Santelli
Everything
Theater
People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.
Ricky Martin
Time
People
Walk
Stage
Every
Every Time
Addictive
Say
Must
Through
Part
Know
Doing
Lot
Going
Which
Theater
Why
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
Ridley Scott
Home
Direct
Come
Talk
Till
Go
Cows
Theater
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
Rob Lowe
Good
Sports
Dark
School
Secret
Nerd
Study
Liked
Very
Theater
Deep
I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.
Rob McClure
Wife
Community
Live
Out
Lot
Theater
Philadelphia
In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.
Rob Riggle
Great
Comedy
College
Everything
Those
Stripes
Could
Had
Major
Comedies
Always
Affinity
Quote
Theater
Kansas
Film
University
I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.
Rob Riggle
People
Nights
Other
Took
Seven
Classes
About
Week
Could
Performed
Lights
Wrote
Around
Sound
Years
Improv
Did
Just
Theater
Sketch
Sketches
Shows
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
Rob Zombie
You
Remember
School
High
See
High School
Could
Dawn
Like
Dead
Going
Mayhem
Movie
Theater
Barely
Fun
Even
Watch
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Robert Brustein
Please
Primary
Talent
Audience
Itself
Theater
Even
Function
Serve
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