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I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
Derek Walcott
Theatre
Black
Caribbean
Defined
Writer
Soon
Becomes
Am
Go
America
Place
Little
Ridiculous
I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
Dexter Fletcher
Theatre
Job
Too
Enough
Unless
Astronaut
Television
Been
Offered
Get
Far
Lucky
Film
Stray
Film And Television
Career
Honestly, I actually would really love to see more musical theatre actors do the movie adaptations of shows - I think that would be really great to see.
Diana DeGarmo
Love
Great
Theatre
Think
Honestly
Musical
Musical Theatre
Would
Would-Be
See
More
Movie
Really
Shows
Actor
Actually
Adaptation
I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.
Diana Rigg
Theatre
Critics
Part
Very
Mean
Much
There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.
Diana Rigg
Knowledge
Theatre
Passion
Those
Who
My voice triggers people into recognising me, often at the weirdest times. If I'm in the theatre and talking while in line to go to the loo, the rest of the queue will turn around and say, 'Wait a minute. It's you.'
Didi Conn
Me
You
Theatre
People
Wait
Will
Rest
Say
Triggers
Minute
Voice
Weirdest
Talking
Around
Go
Line
Queue
Times
Often
While
Turn
When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
Diego Luna
Happy
Theatre
Remember
School
Young
Only
Football
Between
Liked
Were
Just
Happened
In-Between
Places
Things
I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
Diego Luna
You
Theatre
Speak
Cinema
Big
Insofar
More
Industry
Because
Mexico
Than
Much
Connect
Film
Actor
Film Industry
So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.
Dilshad Vadsaria
Me
Theatre
World
Long
Other
Some
Through
Part
Content
Quite
Human
Being
Storytelling
Explore
Connection
I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you.
Dion DiMucci
Best
Great
Me
You
Business
Heart
Theatre
Sax
Tell
Horns
He
Got
Bands
Blues
Apollo
Expresses
Players
Plays
It's hard to get people up and out to shows, but 'The Walworth Farce' has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don't always come to the theatre, which is great.
Domhnall Gleeson
Great
Theatre
People
Will
Energy
Out
Crowd
Come
Attract
Masses
Always
Up
Get
Which
Farce
Hard
Who
Shows
When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
Dominic Monaghan
Good
Theatre
Projects
Television
Married
About
Between
Talk
Read
Get
Get Married
Happens
Script
Scripts
Agent
Then
Next
Choose
Film
Receive
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
Don Cheadle
Great
Theatre
People
Walk
Become
Out
Able
Something
Want
Really
Film
Conscious
Socially
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
Donald Hall
Time
Theatre
First
Booming
Bad
Poem
Had
Aloud
First Time
Won
Prize
Oxford
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
Donald Pleasence
Time
Myself
Character
Me
Theatre
Walks
Think
Thinking
Top
Way
Constantly
About
Himself
Am
Leave
Lines
Holds
Even
Play
Mumble
In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.
Donnie Wahlberg
Theatre
School
Year
Kids
High
High School
Both
Throughout
Studying
New
Also
Well
Block
Freshman
Doing
Freshman Year
Actually
Started
With me, it was just a job. I never had stars in my eyes about the theatre.
Doris Eaton Travis
Me
Eyes
Theatre
Job
Stars
About
Never
Had
Just
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Dorothea Dix
Theatre
Envy
Tea
Dancing
Those
Find
Delights
Look
Parties
Taste
May
Little
Transitory
Aversion
Who
Fashionable
Enjoyment
Cards
I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.
Douglas Booth
Work
Myself
Youth
Theatre
School
National
Drama
Took
Like
Most
Comfortable
Felt
How
Up
Did
Where
Wanted
Much
Acting
Express
Saturday
I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.
Douglas Booth
Beautiful
Theatre
National
Othello
Saw
London
Stunning
National Theatre
Moved
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
Douglas Wilson
Theatre
Stage
Sets
Later
Lighting
Come
Most
Became
Were
Handy
Going
Whether
Realize
Working
Skills
Exposed
Designer
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Eddie Redmayne
Work
You
Theatre
People
Seen
Sense
Think
Complete
Must
Superfluous
True
Camera
Lot
Than
Gets
Anything
Much
Film
Harder
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond
Theatre
Our
Greeks
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Edward Bond
Theatre
Does
Turn
Century
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
Edward Bond
Theatre
People
Animals
First
Devil
Then
Now
Need
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
Edward Bond
Theatre
Political
Will
Job
Before
Situation
Think
Our
Further
Would
Would-Be
Propaganda
Simplistic
Understand
Provide
Explore
Moment
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