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Theater Quotes by Tony Kushner
- The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people…
- The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.…
- So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it.…
- I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly…
- And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a…
- Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
- There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
- But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary…
- I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more…
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- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one… — Amy Adams
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
- I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes… — Lewis Black
- Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great… — Lewis Black
- I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. — Orlando Bloom
- You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because,… — Michael Bloomberg