1588 Theater Quotes for You to Enjoy

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. Anna Deavere Smith

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Theater was something that I always wanted to study. Anna Diop

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I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture. Anna Kendrick

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Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater. Anne Archer

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I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. Annette Bening

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting. Annette Bening

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It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family. Annette Bening

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I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling. Annette Bening

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When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. Annette Bening

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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 was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks. Annie Golden

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One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology. Annie Parisse

Favorite Classes Horror Psychology Theater

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher. Annie Potts

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I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances? Annie Potts

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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater. Ansel Elgort

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I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. Ansel Elgort

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I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16. Anthony Edwards

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I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the energy of these young people. They're the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I'm really happy to be with them. Anthony Zerbe

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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. Antonio Banderas

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I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage. Anurag Kashyap

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I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident. Ari Graynor

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I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York. Ari Graynor

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