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When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
Beyond a Boundary -
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
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Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
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In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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