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“Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.”

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Author:Edward T. Hall

“I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.”

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Author:Rutger Hauer

“I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.”

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Author:Jim Henson

“My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.”

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Author:Andy Garcia

“Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.”

Should Character Produce Achievement Anxiety Theatre Greatest Achievement

Author:Howard Barker

“I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.”

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Author:Howard Barker

“We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.”

Want Beautiful Secret Share Theatre Enlightening Seducing

Author:Howard Barker

“When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.”

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Author:Howard Barker

“Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.”

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Author:Christian Lacroix

“My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.”

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Author:Morena Baccarin

“I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.”

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Author:Morena Baccarin

“The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.”

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Author:Nicolas Roeg

“Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.”

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Author:Laz Alonso

“I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.”

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Author:Samantha Barks

“I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.”

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Author:Sandra Brown

“Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.”

Want Ends Film Letting Go Theatre Viva

Author:Viva Bianca

“I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.”

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Author:Amanda Burton

“I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.”

Done Facts Periods Drama Theatre Costumes

Author:Brenda Blethyn

“When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.”

School Left Drama Training Theatre Dozen

Author:Brenda Blethyn

“I trained in the theatre.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!”

Drink Luck Shoes Theatre Plenty Right Thing Right Time

Author:Deborah Bull

“People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.”

People Thinking Art Home Used Three House Watches Months Comfort Red Theatre Screens Flats Why Not Three Months Envelopes Comfort Of Home

Author:Edward Burns

“As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.”

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Author:Gavin Bryars

“I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.”

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Author:James Belushi

“I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.”

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Author:Jeremy Bulloch

“I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.”

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Author:Kelly Brook

“Musical theatre is my first love.”

Firsts Musical Theatre First Love Musical Theatre

Author:Laura Benanti

“When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!”

Firsts Beautiful Saws Impossible Decided Theatre Lawyer Movie Theatre

Author:Roberto Benigni

“Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.”

Said Wanted Actors Theatre

Author:Sebastian Bach

“My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.”

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Author:Yancy Butler

“As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.”

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Author:Sam Claflin

“I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.”

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Author:Jenny Agutter

“My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.”

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Author:Didi Conn

“It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.”

People Want Able Film Walks Conscious Theatre

Author:Don Cheadle

“For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.”

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Author:Len Cariou

“I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.”

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Author:Len Cariou

“I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.”

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Author:Natasha Calis

“I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.”

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Author:Simon Callow

“Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.”

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Author:Simon Callow

“It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.”

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Author:Tom Conti

“The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.”

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Author:Arthur Darvill

“When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.”

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Author:Arthur Darvill

“My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.”

Important Actors Father Company Theatre Montreal

Author:Gilles Duceppe

“I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.”

Knows Light Faces Energy Hollywood Theatre Shooting Extras Very Inspiring

Author:Jean Dujardin

“A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.”

Careers Demand Commitment Theatre

Author:Jim Dale

“Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.”

Littles Desire Hollywood Opposites Theatre Brutal Inhuman

Author:Joyce DeWitt

“Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.”

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Author:Joyce DeWitt

“I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.”

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Author:Britt Ekland

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