“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.” CountryLeftCompanyTheaterGermanyIranTurkeys Author:Navid Negahban
“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.” WantFirstsChildrenCountryWantedJobsCommunityCitiesGroupsCollegeCoupleInvolvedSceneSummerTheaterGet InvolvedGigsKentuckyMaine Author:Timothy Simons
“In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.” FirstsArtCountryAttitudeStageProudWorshipTheaterOur CountryRebellionMarchContemptMediocrityRootedDisgustingVulgaritySuffocatingManifestosSnobbish Author:Umberto Boccioni
“The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.” CountryActorsActingStageTheaterCitizenshipPassports Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.” YearsFirstsLongCountryFoundFatherHeardFirst TimeTheaterRadioBoxesSquaresFestivalsCarolinaNorth CarolinaBanjosOld Year Author:Pete Seeger
“Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.” PeopleShouldCountryOrderUnderstandingDemocracyTheaterMediumsOur CountryLuxury Author:Hallie Flanagan
“[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.” NeedsShouldCountryGovernmentInterestingNew YorkTheaterAbsurd Author:Ed Koch
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater.” WayCountryEssenceTheaterRejoice Author:Ken Ludwig
“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.” ThinkingWorldYearsBelieveLongCountryFacesUsedI BelieveKnownTechnologyFindingsWeaponsMassDestructionBasesTheaterThreatDevelopingRangeChemicalsCapabilityMissilesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationChemical WeaponsBiological Weapons Author:William Cohen
“America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.” PeopleIfsBelieveHas BeensCountryFactsBodyAbleAmericaCultureNumbersMilitaryStyleGunTragedyTheaterWestDirtyMentalityPolicemenArmorArtilleryCarnageWild WestAuroraGun Culture Author:Bob Costas
“But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.” ThinkingFirstsMadeCountryPlayMotherSeeingTheaterFrankDiariesParalyzedVienna Author:Tony Kushner
“I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.” CountryThreeHouseDirectorsMarriedHollywoodTheaterMovedBritishLondonParisHallsPeterApartment Author:Leslie Caron
“Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.” WantYearsCountryWholeTodayChristianPastSpiritReligionCultureLiteratureReligiousResultsPartyChristianityAtheismDevelopmentTheaterPressesWhole LifeTiesPoisonExcessImmoralPledgeImmoralityBurn OutReligion ChristianFaith ReligionReligion WarReligion And War Author:Adolf Hitler
“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.” TryingMeanCountryHelpingSchoolParentViolenceStudentsGunStandingTragedyTheaterPoliceCongressStealingInnocentEach DayOfficersShoppingNot AfraidCitizenshipGun ControlPastorHookKeep TryingVisitingPolice OfficerMallsGun ViolenceMovie TheaterSandySandy Hook Author:Barack Obama
“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country” ShouldCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesShould HaveTheaterTownsCivilizedFederal GovernmentCounty Author:Tony Randall
“I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.” PeopleCountryKidsHellInvolvedTheaterStaringPosters Author:Allen Covert
“See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.” MenTwoCountryWholeStageTheaterTheatreSmoothLightingCapitolGroovyGood Lighting Author:Jerry Garcia