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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

“You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.”

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Author:Alan Tudyk

“I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under you and you're shooting a real gun, you almost don't have to act. It's just really amazing.”

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Author:Anson Mount

“This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.”

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Author:Clark Gable

“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.”

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Author:George Clooney

“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

“A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.”

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Author:William Shatner

“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”

“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.”

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Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.”

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Author:Ed O'Neill

“I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

“A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.”

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Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“One man in his time plays many parts.”

“I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.”

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Author:Erland Josephson

“I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.”

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Author:Kelly Bishop

“My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.”

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Author:Curtis Armstrong

“I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.”

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Author:John Michael Higgins

“I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.”

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Author:John Michael Higgins

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