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“I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.”

Born Theater Painter

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.”

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Author:Alvin Ailey

“We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.”

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Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.”

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Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.”

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Author:Philippe Petit

“Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.”

Feelings Dream Together Born Taste Theater Defeat Dream Theater

Author:John Petrucci

“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.”

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Author:Ethan Suplee

“I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the time he was 15, I think probably from age 12 to 15, my grandfather made him demonstrate mediumistic powers at the Exeter Street Theater, the first Spiritualist church in the United States.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.”

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Author:Terry Kinney