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“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.”

Lost Lines Stage Goes On Mouths Decided Theater Bounds Southern Southerner

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.”

Way Humans Reason Humanity Lost Special Effects Reflection Theater Endure Obscure Special Effects

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.”

Play Lost Change Loses Drama Theater Dialogue Great Men Howl

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.”

“Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done.”

Two Done Play Whole Running Able Actors Lost Easier Scene Pages Theater Guarantees Seconds Refreshing Alleyways

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.”

Years Firsts Age Wanted Young Lost Community Acting Saws Theater Profession Young Age Indiana Ark Raiders

Author:Guy Wilson

“If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.”

Ifs Trying Eye Lost Cases Worst Theater Theatre Elephants Playwright Crossings Nineteen Alps Snowstorms

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.”

Lost Theater Pounds

Author:Josh Young

“The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.”

People Littles Has Beens Lost Theater Shame Cuban Movie Theater

Author:Fernando Perez

“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.”

Guy Winning Lost Sports Team Football Kings Theater Quitting Soccer Captains Football Team Prom

Author:Patrick Wilson

“When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City to see the classic 'Paradigm Lost' revue - with Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit and Kevin Dorff. It blew my mind, and proved to me you can do sketch comedy like you're doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night.' We could treat it like theater.”

Mind Long Night Lost Can Do Cities Comedy Journey College Like You Treats Theater Classic Chicago Paradigm Improvisation Kevin Road Trip Long Day Fey Sketch Comedy Second City Troupe

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.”

Thinking Play Shows Film Law Lost Records Stage Stupid Theater Unions Narrow-minded Stage Play

Author:Debbie Reynolds