“One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.” ReasonDiesLeftParentAudienceTheaterShocking Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.” PeopleParentDadTheaterMy DadTheatrical Author:Kate Fleetwood
“I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.” GivingTryingPersonsI CanLastsFilmParentHoursMinutesTheater Author:James Ponsoldt
“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.” ThinkingMenDifferentHappensSchoolYoungFatherParentBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterTownsEightYoung ManSiblingMy SiblingsTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.” WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks Author:Condoleezza Rice
“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn
“My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsChildrenActorsParentRoomsGrewGrew UpExcitingTheaterMirrorsCostumesDressingsBulbsDressing RoomsVery Romantic Author:Phoebe Fox
“When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman, she should consider moving to L.A. and trying to do this professionally." My parents were hesitant, but they would take me.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksSaidMovingParentTheaterActressesTake MeHesitant Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.” PeopleParentInterestRichTheaterInspiredRich People Author:Billy Eichner
“Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.” ShouldMindChildrenArtDifferentHelpingCareSchoolGrowsParentBrainTheaterMathWho Cares Author:Julie Taymor
“My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.” PeopleYearsBookKidsUsedSocialParentHoursRoomsRichWeekPicksTheaterLibraryPhotographSatParksMakeupBalletOperaSaturdayInteriorsCostumesSocial LifeDowntownUpstairsPublic LibraryHonolulu Author:Bette Midler
“When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!” ParentCompanyNew YorkTheaterSevenGlobesTouringMama Author:Diane Lane
“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
“My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.” KindParentTheaterAccidents Author:Alan Rickman
“My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.” RealityParentLinesSpecialTheaterPossessedSomething SpecialStood Up Author:Raul Julia