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“Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.”

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Author:David Naughton

“I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.”

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Author:Franco Nero

“When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.”

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Author:Ivor Novello

“When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.”

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Author:Richard O'Brien

“I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.”

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Author:Richard O'Brien

“I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.”

School Drama Paid Dues London Theatre

Author:Richard O'Brien

“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

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Author:Christine Lahti

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.”

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Author:Darby Stanchfield

“I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.”

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Author:Devon Sawa

“But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.”

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Author:Janet Suzman

“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.”

Stories Together Theatre Who We Are Reaching Where We Come

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.”

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Author:Lusia Strus

“What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.”

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Author:Lusia Strus

“I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.”

Ifs Theatre

Author:Sarah Sutton

“I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.”

Use Hands Too Much College Notes Theatre

Author:Susan Sullivan

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

Kids Grows Sports Growing Up Theatre Camps

Author:Aaron Tveit

“I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.”

Done Training Theatre Broadway

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.”

Thinking Years Sports Ability Independent Theatre

Author:Jack Wagner

“I grew up in the theatre.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.”

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Author:Kara Lindsay

“But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.”

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Author:Janet McTeer

“I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.”

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Author:Paul McGann

“As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.”

Play Stories Audience Concerned Theatre Hull

Author:Sylvester McCoy

“As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.”

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Author:Sylvester McCoy

“I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.”

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Author:Sylvester McCoy

“Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.”

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Author:Sylvester McCoy

“I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.”

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Author:A. J. McLean

“I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.”

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Author:Fred Melamed

“I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.”

Way Needs Long Play Hours Television Shots Series Theatre

Author:Gavin MacLeod

“Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.”

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Author:Graeme Murphy

“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.”

Believe Ability Issues Air Theatre Mediums Peculiar

Author:Samuel West

“I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.”

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Author:Michelle Ryan

“When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.”

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Author:Michelle Ryan

“I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.”

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Author:Elliot Cowan

“New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.”

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Author:Goh Chok Tong

“Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.”

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Author:Raymond Cruz

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