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“I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.”

Audience Alive Theater

Author:Chita Rivera

“Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.”

Firsts Wells Alive Theater

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.”

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Author:Billy Crystal

“Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.”

Thinking Trying Years Alive Theater Actresses I've Learned Staying Alive

Author:Lauren Bacall

“I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.”

Want Feels Long Home Actors Challenges Audience Alive Theater Tired Productions

Author:Gillian Anderson

“As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.”

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Author:Maggie Siff

“Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.”

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Author:Brendan Dooling

“I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.”

Feels Body Together Alive Performances Theater Musical Cells Nuts Musical Theater Orchestration

Author:Kelly Stables

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

People World Years Has Beens Four Alive Dying Thousand Tough Theater Institutions Devoted Thousand Years

Book:Once There Was a War

Source: Once There Was a War

“Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.”

People Want Alive Goes On Theater Staying Alive

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”

Alive Streets Theater

Author:Al Pacino

“Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.”

Giving Persons Hours Alive Give Me Theater

Author:Zosia Mamet