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“When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.”

Author:Dan Stevens

“We're actors. We're the opposite of people.”

People Actors Opposites Theatre

Author:Tom Stoppard

“It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.”

Littles Different Planets Theatre Seats Broadway Gross Ashtrays Broadway Theatre

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.”

Humans Motivational Human Beings Acting Greater Influence Emotional Habit Theatre Crafts

Author:Lee Strasberg

“You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.”

Knows Lying Audience Mouths Theatre

Author:Elaine Stritch

“Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.”

Audience Stranger Theatre

Author:Elaine Stritch

“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”

Two Reason Church Wife Pride Institutions Theatre Cruelty Brotherhood Demonstration Dividing Religion And Politics Harlots

Book:Jerusalem: A Simplified Version

Source: Jerusalem: A Simplified Version

“My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.”

Guy Plans Crazy Towns Ill Theatre Managers Small Town Old Movie

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.”

Feels Acting Theatre Australian Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.”

Men Writing Young Political Subjects Happenings Angry Pops British Theatre Young Man Bob Dylan Controversial

Author:Pete Townshend

“What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.”

Thinking Trying Stories Alive Drama Property Come Up Theatre Obsession Angle

Author:Pete Townshend

“What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.”

People Looks Sometimes Stories Form Order Models Ordinary Theatre Operations Internals Ordinary People

Author:Pete Townshend

“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.”

Attitude Audience Baseball Crowds Theatre Atmosphere Positive Attitude Distinctive

Book:Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

Needs Wells Theater Theatre Reminders

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Character Fiction Materials Tvs Independent Studios Driven Theatre Partners Developing Diverse Cables Non Fiction Amy Slate Producing Movies

Author:Meredith Vieira

“In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.”

Years School High School Program Theatre Boston Freshman Freshman Year Freshman Year In High School

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.”

Years Has Beens Reality Lasts Degrees Theatre Contemporary Cinema Nevertheless Poland

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.”

Wells Actors Comedy Training Yeah Musical Theatre Backgrounds

Author:Christopher Walken

“I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.”

Acting Hero Theatre

Author:Julie Walters

“I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.”

Children Home School Mother Class Watches Creative Tvs Involved Solutions Everyday Theatre Locals Dramatic Coming Home Programmes Workshops Talkative Creative Solutions

Author:Kerry Washington

“The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.”

Film Watches Conversation Silent Theatre Stanley

Author:Peter Weir

“I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.”

Thinking Theatre Very Happy

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”

Want Giving Social Audience Too Much Scene Theater Theatre Suggestions Hints

Author:Orson Welles

“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.”

Feelings Truth White Terrible Sitting Theatre Seats Beard Sinai

Author:Orson Welles

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

Believe Heart Film Actors Acting Theatre Printed Fake People

Author:Orson Welles

“The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.”

Night Car Theatre Bother Parks Restaurants Somewhere Else Good Night Goodnight Have A Good Night Had A Good Night Car Parks

Author:Timothy West

“One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.”

Difficult Originals Intention Theatre Repetition Slides

Author:Ben Whishaw

“I think there is no world without theatre.”

Thinking World Literature Theatre

Author:Edward Bond

“When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.”

Firsts Film Comedy Tvs Theatre First Love

Author:Olivia Wilde

“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

Believe Humans Made Action Human Beings Events Pure Theater Theatre Comment Involving Arresting

Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'”

Action Moral Theater Theatre

Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”

Persons Facts Player Directors Management Theatre Engaged Theatrical Theatre Directors

Book:Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate

Source: Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate

“I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.”

Children Stuff Community Acting Serious Theatre Wizards Chorus Annie Community Theatre

Author:Michelle Williams

“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”

Ifs Men Writing Teaching Honest Theatre

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”

Writing Found Theatre

Author:Tennessee Williams

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”

Ifs Play Night Failure Negative Theatre Get Back Reviews Compelled Typewriters Back To Work

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.”

Should Play Character Left Deals Mystery Theatre Revelations

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.”

Character Transformation Theatre

Author:Rainn Wilson

“In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.”

Facts Shows Theatre Ran March November Wales Pantomime

Author:Norman Wisdom

“Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

Funny Courses Dark Critics Theatre Dramatic Daytime

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.”

Light Wise India Theatre

Author:Vir Das

“Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.”

World Whole Helping Views Fiction Class Psychology Students Higher Economics Science Fiction Theatre New World Mediocre Pursued Higher Education World View

Author:Vir Das

“I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.”

Successful Pieces Taste Theatre Heritage Innate Conservatism Annoyed Grumpy

Author:Romola Garai

“There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.”

Knows Lines Theatre Rehearsal

Author:Keeley Hawes

“I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.”

Important Bigs Numbers Theatre Instance Wheels Mime

Author:David Bowie

“Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.”

Littles Shows Bigs London Theatre

Author:Zach Braff

“Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.”

Long Shows Life Is Memories Happened Sadness Forgotten Theatre Long Ago

Author:Nick Drake

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.”

Thinking World Believe Ends Fire Greater Jokes Theatre Wit Broke Clown Applause Acclaim

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.”

Focus Musical Deeper Theatre Intense Intimacy Musical Theatre

Author:Sarah Brightman

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