Quotes by Rob Mcclure - Page 1

I get teased a lot for my optimism.
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Teased
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I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.
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Strive
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I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations.
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Cities
Communities
Foundations
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I saw 'Cats' on a school trip. I thought it was neat and a little weird. The set was cool.
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Neat
Cats
Trip
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I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.
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Silly
Lends
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I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.
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Philadelphia
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Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.
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Blast
Broadway
Performing
Audiences
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I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.
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Sports Always Never
Specifically
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There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.
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Irresponsible
Outlandish
Actor
Financially
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One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
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Hyde
Musical Theater
Concept
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I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
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Being Myself
Imitating
Performers
Admired
Work Myself Start
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I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,' I can feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
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Chaplin
Neck
Claim
Stand Up
Tramp
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I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
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Muppet
Art Form
Puppet
Extent
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I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
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Musical Theater
Performing
Double
Minor
The Only Thing
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I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.
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Love Time Long
Avenue
Funniest
Funniest Thing
Smartest
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The nice thing about 'Honeymoon in Vegas' is we're not talking about some crazy smash hit where everyone is coming and comparing my performance to Nicholas Cage.
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Honeymoon
Not Talking
Vegas
Hit
Cage
Comparing
Performance
Nice Thing
Smash
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I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!
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Autographs
Dreamed
Huge Fan
Vineyard
Waited
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The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.
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Audition
Avenue
Puppet
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Maggie and I got married and then had to wait three years before we got to take our honeymoon because we were both working! Right before 'Chaplin' began, we got to go to Hawaii.
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Chaplin
Hawaii
Honeymoon
Maggie
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When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.
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Jurassic Park
Hugely
Impacted
Jurassic
Park
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I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.
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Profession
Right Person
Date
People Person Matter
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I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.
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Wise
Annoying
Recipes
Wise Person
Dreamed
Musical Comedy
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Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.
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Inhale
Never Forget
Preconceptions
Camp
Puppet
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I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.
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Animation
Chaplin
Pixar
Revolutionaries
Infusing
Medium
Similar
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I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly written song. I really do. I think it's one of the great songs in the American Songbook, and it speaks to love in its simplest and purest form.
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Simplest
Love Great Me
Great Songs
Perfectly
Purest
Purest Form
Songbook
Speaks
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I would advise young aspiring theater artists to do as many shows as possible. It doesn't matter if it's in the basement of a church, in school, or in community theater. Do them wherever you can; big parts or small, it doesn't matter.
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Advise
Aspiring
Basement
Wherever
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Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.
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Accountability
Beloved
Figures
Historic
Persona
Scary
Actual
Forms
Extra
Mozart
Portray
Task
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My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films.
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Aunt
Chaplin
Funny Story
Introduction
Life Funny Me
Entire Life
Initial
Resonate
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We are brunch hounds. We also like movie dates. There's a lot of diners, a lot of movies. We're 'simple pleasures' people. It doesn't have to be crazy. It could be a 'Law and Order' marathon on the couch, or it could be dinner or a show. We like to mix it up.
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Dinner
Law And Order
Marathon
Couch
Dates
Hound
Mix
Pleasures
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If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!
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Cameras
Insanity
Muppet
Mouth
Two People
Underneath
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My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.
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Grandpa
Mall
Screaming
Skateboard
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