“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.” TwoThreeWatchesMinutesTheaterUniversityTheatreContemporaryAssociationAuditionsDeanResidentsMonologues Author:Kunal Nayyar
“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.” IdeasRealPlayRunningComedyMinutesTheaterWigsDialectCorsetsIntermission Author:Lily Rabe
“I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.” WayFirstsWould BeAbleWatchesImagineMinutesTheaterRunnersBladesBlade Runner Author:William Gibson
“I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.” PeopleRealHoursFiveMinutesSceneTheaterReal LifeFive Minutes Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!” IfsFirstsHas BeensI CanWantedSchoolYoungPassionCan DoActingMinutesStageHigh SchoolFirst TimeDoctorsTheaterMy PassionFreshmanDay LifeI Can Do This Author:Sophia Bush
“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.” DifferentActingMinutesTheaterActing In Movies Author:Alec Baldwin
“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.” WantedSchoolCareersMinutesCollegeDegreesTheaterMusicalPursuePursuedMusical Theater Author:Nancy Allen
“I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.” GivingTryingPersonsI CanLastsFilmParentHoursMinutesTheater Author:James Ponsoldt
“You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.” WayNeedsFeelingsLastsNextMinutesTheaterReleaseCowardAcceptableTerrifiedOutletsMovie TheaterLast Place Author:Eli Roth
“I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.” KnowsI CanKidsFiveDoorsFansStreetsMinutesStageMetsTheaterThank GodHarry PotterAmazedCurtainsFive MinutesTerrificPotters Author:Michael Gambon
“Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmLaughingComedyMinutesTheaterThings ChangeAway From YouSlippingSlipping Away Author:Taika Waititi
“I wanted people to know that I'm not just a guy who does weird videos on the Internet. I actually am a filmmaker, and I can tell stories, and I can create something that's 90 minutes long that feels just like any other movie you see in the theater, and hopefully enjoy.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLongDoeI CanStoriesWantedGuyEnjoyMinutesInternetTheaterVideoHopefullyFilmmakerFeels Just Author:Shane Dawson
“Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.” YearsDoneRememberFilmThreeHoursMinutesEasierTheaterDialogueNovelty Author:Woody Allen
“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.” HumansMayHas BeensTwoDiesMinutesStandardsSittingFunctionTheaterCeaseChairsFlourButtocks Author:Michael J. Nelson
“Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'” ThinkingMenWantPlayWeekMinutesRight NowSixTheaterSunday Author:Stephen Lang
“I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater.” TryingLooksTwoGuyFoundWhiteAirFeetMinutesSixTheaterGuidesViolentThroatLunchYellowFifteenCasualSprayUncontrollableBeijingWhite Guys Author:Steve Hely
“I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.” ThinkingSchoolCompanyStudyMinutesLuckyTheaterGeek Author:Jenna Coleman
“Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.” WorldWayFirstsDoneWholeLastsFiveWeekMinutesTheaterWarmWhole WorldUnusualFive MinutesVansRehearsalSurrealCrucible Author:Saoirse Ronan