Quotes with theater

  • Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
  • As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
  • Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
  • When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
  • Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
  • When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
  • You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
  • When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
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  • William Archer One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
    William Archer
    Scottish writer and theatre critic (1856 - 1924)
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  • Adam Pascal Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!.
    Adam Pascal
    American actor and singer (1970 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Betty Buckley Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Roman Polanski Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
    Roman Polanski
    Polish-French actor and filmmaker (1933 - )
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • A. Alfred Taubman God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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  • Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bobby Cannavale Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
    Bobby Cannavale
     
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  • Beah Richards Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Bryan Cogman I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • August Wilson I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Adolph Green I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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