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“Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.”

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Author:Christopher Eccleston

“The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.”

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Author:Christopher Eccleston

“Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.”

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Author:Christopher Eccleston

“My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.”

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Author:Josef Albers

“I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.”

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Author:Karen Allen

“The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.”

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Author:Peter Ackroyd

“I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.”

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Author:Michael Ealy

“Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?”

Quality Theatre Like Me

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.”

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Author:Jeffrey Combs

“I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.”

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Author:Jeffrey Combs

“I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.”

Lasts Draws Breaths Theatre

Author:Peter Gallagher

“My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.”

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Author:Peter Gallagher

“You can only do so much theatre.”

Author:Victor Garber

“When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.”

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Author:Shirley Henderson

“In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.”

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Author:Lee Hall

“Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.”

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Author:Tom Hardy

“I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Jones

“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.”

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Author:John Mahoney

“I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.”

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Author:Angela Kinsey

“The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.”

“When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.”

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Author:Andrew Lincoln