“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.” FirstsMadeShowsKidsCompanyFiveKingsTheaterChocolateFactoriesCharlieCharlie And The Chocolate Factory Author:Max Schneider
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.” KnowsKindHelpingLiteratureDealsRolesKnowingWrittenStageParticularMastersKingsProjectsTheaterTechniqueDialogueCinemaLearAccolades Author:Christopher Plummer
“I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.” ThinkingReasonKingsFlowTheaterPlaywrightUnchangeable Author:Greta Gerwig
“There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!” PeopleThinkingShouldKindDoeEnoughPlayBigsFilmStageKingsTheaterScreensAll KindsFeaturesLengthDrsLutherBig ScreenDr Martin Luther KingStage Play Author:Ava DuVernay
“I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.” GuyWinningLostSportsTeamFootballKingsTheaterQuittingSoccerCaptainsFootball TeamProm Author:Patrick Wilson
“I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.” IfsThinkingWorldWayCitiesAttentionNew YorkKingsTheaterIndependentConfusedNew York CityBubbles Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.” CoursesFansHugeKingsTheaterBackgroundsPlaywrightOptimal Author:Skylar Astin
“When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.” ThinkingDoeSaidRealityKingsTheaterAbstractLionsLiteralLion King Author:Julie Taymor
“We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.” KnowsMenWellsHouseEnjoyMoneyPaintingFineKingsCircumstancesComfortableTheaterSunshineClothingsOperaMarvelousModeratesStatuesMillionaireGood Food Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany