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1304 Theatre quotes by 861 unique authors
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I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
— Juliet Stevenson
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I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that
— Imelda Staunton
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I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me…
— Kiefer Sutherland
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I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.
— Ben Vereen
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I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming…
— Christopher Meloni
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
— Ted Shackelford
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with…
— James Denton
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I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go…
— Noel Coward
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The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most…
— Noel Coward
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The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond the blue-haired old…
— David Soul
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I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway…
— Kathleen Turner
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a…
— Jeffrey Jones
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The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in…
— Judith Malina
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I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I…
— Jose Carreras
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My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
— Skylar Astin
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I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
— Tony Randall
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I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier
— Tony Randall
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I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
— Renee O'Connor
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Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
— Brenda Blethyn
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was…
— Ian Mckellen
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I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
— Eric McCormack
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
— Patrick Stewart
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
— Victor Garber
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If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.
— Kathe Koja
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