1588 Theater Quotes for You to Enjoy

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect. Barry Humphries

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I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?' Bartlett Sher

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. Baz Luhrmann

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My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.' Beanie Feldstein

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I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals. Beanie Feldstein

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Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim. Beanie Feldstein

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I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met. Ben Brantley

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Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh. Ben Dolnick

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I love theater. I really want to go back to it. Ben Hardy

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There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study class once a week. It was started by Charles Bernard and myself. We meet at the theater. Ben Harney

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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. Ben Kingsley

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From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter. Ben Platt

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I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. Ben Whishaw

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The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes that you're involved in honest and real. You're not concerned with the technical aspect of things, and then you sit in the movie theater, and you watch it with everyone else, you realize that, 'Man, this is pretty exciting.' Benjamin Bratt

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I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own. Bert Kalmar

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I'd love to tackle a classic Shakespeare play or take on Nora Helmer in 'A Doll's House.' Musical theater, it's the classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate.' I'm much more a Julie Andrews-type soprano than an Idina Menzel. Beth Behrs

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From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks. Beth Behrs

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Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team. Betty Buckley

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Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the arts in my family. I wasn't brought up particularly cultured. It was always TV and film for me. Betty Gabriel

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.' Betty Gilpin

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When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, 'Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.' It was really easy to connect to. Betty Gilpin

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. Bill Dedman

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I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie. Bill Hader

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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. Bill Hybels

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Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play. Bill Irwin

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