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A video taped stage performance is just – you know, it’s never gonna be the same as it is if you’re sitting there live in the theatre.

—Nathan Lane

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What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they’re little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you...

—Sarah Ruhl

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It’s shameful that today’s mouthy political expositors aren’t better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn’t studied Shakespeare?

—William Giraldi

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What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

—Diane Samuels

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In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

—Nicolas Billon

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The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

—Stella Adler

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All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

—Susan Cooper

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I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

—Charles Dance

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From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

—Lee Hall

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If you’re in a series, you can’t quit, you can’t work in the theatre and you can’t do a movie when you like.

—Sarah Jessica Parker

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Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

—William Alexander

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Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

—Tony Randall

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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

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VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!

—Jonathan Larson

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When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.

—Sarah Ruhl

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‘Doctor Who’ was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children’s theatre.

—Sophie Aldred

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The Director’s Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job...

—Frank Hauser

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Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it’s all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything...

—John Logan

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Acting is in everything but the words.

—Stella Adler

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The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

—Peter Ackroyd

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I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

—Alexa Vega

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Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of ’em tug at my...

—Jane Wagner

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When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.

—Nia Vardalos

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I get on with actors, and when I’m doing a theatre show, it’s great being with them all the time. But we’re all alike, and it’s much nicer being with people who are different.

—Phil Daniels

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What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

—William Shakespeare

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The Theatre of the Absurd, in the sense that it is truly the contemporary theatre, facing as it does man’s condition as it is, is the Realistic theatre of our time; and that the supposed...

—Edward Albee

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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

—Mary Badham

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When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

—Sarah Ruhl

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What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They’re a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into...

—Scott Adsit

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

—G.K. Chesterton

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I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

—Jessica Raine

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Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what’s beneath the word.

—Stella Adler

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People in America, they’re getting dumber, they’re getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at...

—William Missouri

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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

—Bertolt Brecht

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The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

—David Arquette

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It’s great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

—Phil Daniels

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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

—William Shakespeare

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[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

—Hugo Munsterberg

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Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We’re developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is...

—Meredith Vieira

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I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.

—Rob James-Collier

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When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

—S.M. Stevens

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I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

—Jane Austen

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I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

—Jennifer Damiano

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Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don’t be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

—Stella Adler

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I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it’s like a nail, like a hot...

—Tony Kushner

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If you want more people to come to the theatre, don’t put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays...

—Catherine Tate

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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

—James Nesbitt

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That’s something we all want to know, isn’t it? Is there a “purpose” to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced...

—Peter Sinn

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I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

—Rainer Werner

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Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet … and yet …Inside this little world they...

—Terry Pratchett

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