“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.” WellsSchoolFocusPlayerDecidedTheaterQuittingLeagueScholarshipVolleyballIvyI QuitIvy LeagueVolleyball PlayerIvy League Schools Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensFunKnow HowHappenedTaughtTerribleDecidedArmyTheaterIllnessRoughLiving My LifeKoreaElderlyI Live My LifeClose To Death Author:Michael Caine
“because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.” LostLinesStageGoes OnMouthsDecidedTheaterBoundsSouthernSoutherner Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen
“"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.” PersonsPlayCharacterCertainDecidedTheaterFever Author:Wallace Shawn
“When that word came down that the company had decided that we were going to go theatrical, we hooped and hollered and wahooed and all of that stuff, but the good thing is we didn't have to change anything. It's not like all of a sudden we had to reset, like "Oh my gosh, we're going to theater. We've got to make this better. We've got to make this bigger. We've got to add..." It was all done.” DoneStuffCompanyDecidedBiggerTheaterAddGood ThingsTheatricalResetOh My Gosh Author:Klay Hall
“I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.” TryingStuffTelevisionDecidedTheaterProfessionIcing Author:Scott Bakula
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.” PeopleMindHas BeensMadeUnderstandingInterestDirectorsDecidedTheaterCuriosityProducersCinemaSeatsLazyPeers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.” I CanPlayAgeCommunityTeacherTalentDecidedTheaterMotivatedJewish Community Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.” FilmNew YorkTelevisionDecidedTheaterMovedFilm And Television Author:Shirley Knight