“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.” DoneStuffActingComedyStudentsTheaterInstinctEnjoyedDramatic Author:Aasif Mandvi
“Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.” PeopleFirstsRealRunningSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolOrganizationTheaterOriginalsUniversityCastsPerformingVanderbilt Author:Nancy Allen
“As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.” ActingStudyImpossibleStudentsTheaterBrokeLive Theater Author:Jesse L. Martin
“I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.” SchoolStudentsInvolvedTheaterProductionsAmbitiousNerdyGood Students Author:Sara Canning
“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.” FirstsSchoolTogetherFilmFoundSocialDifficultCommunityActingBoysStudentsInvolvedFirst TimeTheaterMassiveClassroomHobbiesOutletsElementary School Author:Holland Roden
“Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.” TwoRunningLastsFilmYoungRoomsWeekStudentsTheaterSalvationSeedsPassingPassingsReleaseBombsLos AngelesReviewsWeekendTicketsPullingInitialsSpectacularTwo WeeksDebutMovie TheaterRefundsFilm Students Book:The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made Source: The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
“Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.” StoriesFormCoursesCompanyYouthStudentsDegreesTheaterManchesterTelling Stories Author:Justin Chadwick
“I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.” BelieveWantedFilmActorsGoalStudentsDirectorsTheaterPhysical BeautyCinematographersFilm Students Author:Pam Grier
“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulFilmWhiteOne ThingMissingStudentsTaughtPaperMusicianTheaterDown AndFilledExperimentsComposerDotsBeautiful MusicRectangles Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.” IfsMenLanguageDesignStudentsHeroMetsTheaterIntellectEnormousGermanyOld ManTowersUrbanProcessionCrankyUrban DesignUnsung HeroPotsdam Author:Frank Gehry
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” IfsBookYoungActingStudentsReadyTheaterShootingFenceCarnegieViolaYoung StudentsUnderstudiesCarnegie Mellon Author:Denzel Washington
“Students can't leave their lives at the door when they come to school. They bring with them whatever is going on at home and in their communities. Poetry and theater provide an outlet for students to express themselves and process what they're going through.” HomeSchoolProcessCommunityDoorsStudentsTheaterOutlets Author:Renee Watson
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveChildrenStoriesYoungReadingI BelieveEnjoyClassTeachSunStudentsPoetReaderHabitTheaterScriptsContemporaryRelateThese DaysUsualInteractionTwilightCraveGood WritingAnnaReading Habits Author:Renee Watson
“I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.” GovernmentStudentsCollegeMajorsTheater Author:Demetri Martin
“When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsSelfHandsTogetherFacesActorsSoundGrowthViewsActingAirSkyStudentsColorWindMaterialsDevelopmentTheaterRecognitionArtisticBehaveHand In Hand Author:Viola Spolin
“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
“Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.” CoursesCan DoStageStudentsIllusionTheaterStudiosCraftsFormerFascinated Author:Francis Ford Coppola