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“I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.”

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Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.”

Dream School Chance Mines Theater

Author:Matthew Settle

“I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.”

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Author:Tony Shalhoub

“Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.”

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Author:Kenneth Branagh

“That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.”

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Author:Amy Sedaris

“You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.”

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Author:Josh Groban

“I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.”

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Author:Angela Lansbury

“When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.”

Trying Chance Theater Checks

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

“I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I jump at any chance to go back into theater.”

Author:Taye Diggs

“Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.”

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Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.”

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Author:Renee O'Connor