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“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.”

Years Play Young Dad Six Theater Seven My Dad My Sister Seven Years Joyous

Author:Julia Roberts

“So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.”

Years Doe Play Shows Home Girl Games Stuff Boys Support Fans Media Office Theater Starting Passionate Boxes Video Twilight Tents Box Office

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.”

Years Three Roles Theater London Three Years

Author:Orlando Bloom

“The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.”

Years Real Ends Next Theater Available Finance Estates Broadway Next Year

Author:Blair Underwood

“I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.”

Years Art School Three Acting College High School Performances Theater Musical Performing Concentration Three Years Minors Manhattan Performing Arts Musical Theater

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.”

Years Young House Fear White Theater Noise Cheer Annoyed Whistling Stomping

Author:Ethel Waters

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

People World Years Has Beens Four Alive Dying Thousand Tough Theater Institutions Devoted Thousand Years

Book:Once There Was a War

Source: Once There Was a War

“I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!”

Years Believe Reason Remember I Believe Existence Growing Up Growing Events Drink Bed Theater Tables Hey Queens Shirts Ties Ems No Reason Punk Couches Movie Theater

Author:James Caan

“Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.”

“I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.”

Years Facts Bigs Husband Machines Theater Birthday My Husband Fanatics My Birthday Popcorn Movie Theater

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.”

Years New York Theater

Author:Kristen Johnston

“I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.”

Years Film Acting Theater Location Suitcases

Author:Alfred Molina

“What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.”

Years Two Film New York Theater

Author:Piper Perabo

“It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.”

Years Stage Easier Comfortable Bigger Harder Theater Screens Intimacy Teens

Author:Aileen Quinn

“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

Years Teacher Four New York College Theater Four Years Nyc

Author:Aida Turturro

“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera”

Ifs Years Real Reason Speak Behinds College Degrees Theater Cameras College Degree Milieu

Author:Alton Brown

“Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on”

Years Wells I Can Film Roles Goodness Theater Technique Rely Thank You

Author:Chris Cooper

“These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.”

Years Long Running Can Do Five Television Tvs Theater Series These Days Features Five Years Tv Series

Author:Tom Berenger

“I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.”

People Thinking Should Years Seems Theater Forgotten Arrogant Arrogant People

Book:Plays

Source: Plays

“When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.”

Inspirational Years Two Left Acting Class New York Involved Speech Army Theater Wings Dance Two Years Fencing

Author:James Earl Jones

“I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.”

Feels Years Mind Long Faces Fall Possibility Happenings Theater Extraordinary Flats

Author:Sophie Okonedo

“No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.”

Years Two Speak Language Hours Minutes Stage Mets Singing Years Ago Theater Proof Nine Get Better Nine Years Time Goes By

Author:Antonio Banderas

“Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'.”

Ifs Years Wells Play Shows Wanted School Mother Courses Can Do Community Normal Theater Agents Soccer Grades Good Grades

Author:Laura Benanti

“I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.”

Years Hard Done Used Work Known Crazy Theater

Author:Sutton Foster

“It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.”

Years Duty Theater Sacred Ireland Playwright Inarticulate

Book:Tynan on theatre

Source: Tynan on theatre