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When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
Sarah Gadon
Time
Cinema
Degree
Fine
Fine Arts
Studies
Study
Came
Go
Arts
Wanted
Theater
Necessarily
University
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
Sarah Gavron
Art
Painting
Drama
Teenager
Drawing
Some
Did
Loved
Theater
Interested
Really
Acting
When I was in theater school, we did these relationship exercises - you would play my sister, and I'd give you all this information about my sister, and then we'd get up and perform this scene, and you'd pretend to react as my sister. It was like therapy!
Sarah Goldberg
Relationship
You
School
Sister
Pretend
Would
About
Give
Scene
Perform
Like
React
Exercises
Up
Get
Did
Information
Theater
Then
Therapy
Play
Growing up, I really wanted my own theater company, and I really wanted to do theater, so I was consciously pursuing it.
Sarah Goldberg
Own
My Own
Pursuing
Up
Wanted
Theater
Really
Company
Growing
Growing Up
My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Theater
Working
Actress
You know when you have a party as a kid, and your mom hires a fairy, princess, or superhero to come host the party? I was Fairy Lavender. I loved it. It was good training for theater.
Sarah Snook
Good
Mom
You
Training
Party
Kid
Superhero
Host
Come
Know
Princess
Fairy
Loved
Theater
Your
I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.'
Sarita Choudhury
Me
Kind
TV
Perfect
Could
Cable
Never
Between
Stuff
Like
Also
Course
Felt
Fit
Very
Going
Move
Oh
Want
Wanted
Happened
Either
Theater
Then
Suddenly
Film
From the second there was drag, trans people were doing it. And when cis women started being allowed in theaters, then cis women doing drag was part of theater.
Sasha Velour
Women
People
Allowed
Part
Doing
Were
Being
Theater
Theaters
Then
Second
Started
Drag
I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.
Sasha Velour
Art
Myself
Creative
Setting
Monthly
Magazine
Some
About
High-Quality
Named
Most
After
Theater
Show
Professional
Drag
Presents
When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.
Sasheer Zamata
Life
Comedy
Thought
My Life
Broadway
Would
Stuff
New
Know
How
How Much
Improv
York
Going
Moved
New York
Theater
Much
Play
I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
Scoot McNairy
Fall
Every
Kid
Would
More
Put
Did
Movie
After-School
Theater
Asleep
Every Night
Night
Program
Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
Scott Bakula
First
Everything
Guy
Know
Well
Foremost
Theater
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
Scott Bakula
Work
Creative
Passion
Looking
Kind
Constantly
Support
Involved
Trying
Theater
The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.
Scott Haze
Mom
People
Seen
Community
Back
Out
Give
Named
Go
Heard
Get
So Many People
Want
After
Place
Which
Theater
Who
Connected
Many
When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.
Sean Gunn
People
Like
Felt
Were
Chicago
Same
Going
Often
Theater
Little
Them
Working
Who
Companies
Lived
There weren't any funny people in sports or the Spanish club. All the really creative, witty, funny people that made your belly hurt were in the theater program.
Sean Hayes
Funny
Creative
Sports
Hurt
People
Made
Club
Funny People
Witty
Were
Any
Theater
Spanish
Really
Your
Belly
Program
I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.
Sean Penn
Love
Time
You
Struggle
Tell
Guy
More
Struggled
Fell
Period
Audience
Always
Than
Movie
Cannot
Theater
Then
Now
Actor
Ever
By the time 'Buffy' finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.
Seanan McGuire
Love
Time
Three
Seen
Finished
Bay
Run
Bay Area
Area
Had
Over
Well
Buffy
Dollar
Times
Movie
Theater
Theatrical
Including
Dozen
By The Time
My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn.
Sebastian Stan
Cinema
Job
First
Sold
City
New
First Job
York
New York
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Worked
Popcorn
Usher
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
Sebastian Stan
Time
Me
Crazy
You
Experience
Think
Else
About
Know
Most
Because
Sticks
Nonstop
Just
Stop
Anything
Anything Else
Theater
Ape
Really
Play
Thing
Present
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
Cinema
Language
Painting
Follow
Objects
Rather
Arise
Combination
New
Ideas
Concepts
Concrete
Methodology
Than
Which
Theater
Forms
Should
Wholly
Now
Why
Two
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
Shane Carruth
Member
Know
Audience
Audience Member
Am
Go
Theater
Less
Inclined
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.
Shane Carruth
People
Member
Seem
Know
Also
Venues
Content
Because
Audience
Audience Member
Am
Go
Repel
Trying
Theater
Less
Inclined
Actively
'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.
Shane Carruth
Me
Rare
Important
Master
Enjoy
See
Able
Bed
Occurrence
Go
Very
Theater
Them
Pause
Really
Laptop
Things
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
Shane Claiborne
Best
World
Witness
Worship
Visible
Circus
Never
Performed
Like
Cathedrals
Gospel
Around
Making
Were
Confined
Theater
Us
Meant
Meant To Be
Liturgy
When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I kept missing it for musical theater.
Shanice Williams
Sports
School
Musical
Kicked
Musical Theater
High
High School
Volleyball
Missing
Because
Got
Off
Going
Theater
Team
Kept
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