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“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

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Author:William H. Macy

“I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.”

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Author:Oliver Platt

“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.”

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Author:Kevin Whately

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.”

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Author:Tommy Wiseau

“I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.”

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Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.”

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Author:Alan Tudyk

“I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.”

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Author:Patti LuPone

“I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.”

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Author:Tony Shalhoub

“My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.”

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Author:Anthony Heald