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Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
Joe Morton
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Television Actor
Jobs
Approach
Cameras
Film And Television
Mediums
Technique
Television
Theater
Translate
Camera
Craft
Terms
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I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic.
Katie Leclerc
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Actress
Depth
Dramatic
Quarters
Theater
Closer
Images
Jump
Sold
Tighter
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Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.
John Logan
/
Playwright
Anguish
Comedian
Dark
Pain
Theater
Appeal
Either
Me People Dark
People Say
Vexing
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.
T. J. Miller
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Actor
Academy
British
Comedy
Drama
High School
Oxford
Summer
Theater
Studied
Always Drama School
Acted
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'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
Roger Ebert
/
Film Critic
Abraham
Doubt
Hunters
Theater
Vampire
Best See Way
Hunter
Likely
Sequel
Subject
Unless
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston
/
Classic
Theater
Work Always Know
Deciding
Model
Participate
Photographing
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I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.
Mark Sheppard
/
Actor
Movie
Opportunity
Chance
Audience
Comic
Fans
Movie Theater
Situation
Television
Theater
Circle
Con
Watch
Enter
Meet
Sharing
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I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino
/
Film Actor
Running
Fleeing
Theater
Always Me Remember
Me Remember Way
Cope
Me Remember Always
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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
Alan Alda
/
Actor
Stage
Tension
Theater
Love Words More
Express
Images
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I know it's inevitable that there will be those who compare 'The Pacific' to 'Band of Brothers.' For years, the Pacific theater of war was not talked about as much as the European theater, yet it was part of the same war.
Jon Seda
/
Band
Compare
Inevitable
Pacific
Theater
Brothers
Talked
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What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.
Michael Mann
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Film Director
Ambition
Impact
Moments
Theater
Content
Beyond
Bring
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I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.
Joe Manganiello
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Actor
Kids
Teacher
Artist
Brilliant
Bunch
College
Theater
Training
Teachers
Artists
Classical
Minds
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I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.
Tom Lenk
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Television Actor
Dance
Fake
Heart
Mustache
Nerd
Silly
Theater
Little
Show
Old
Major
Put
Wig
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I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
George Clinton
/
Singer-Songwriter
Apollo
Broadway
Circles
School
Theater
Tin
Tin Pan Alley
Used
Time Work Music
Alley
Circle
Full
Work Time Music
Pan
Skipping
Worked
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I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
Amy Irving
/
Film Actress
Movie
Careers
Exciting
Feelings
Finished
New Beginnings
Offers
Theater
Work Myself Enough
Beginning
Dedicate
Gotten
New Beginning
Surprisingly
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I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.
Francois Arnaud
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Television Actor
Drama
Intense
Montreal
Nine
Theater
Drama School
Studying
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
Harriet Tubman
/
Activist
Heard
Paint
Slavery
Stage
Theater
Begun
Seen
Cabin
Read
Far
Mrs
Pen
Real Thing
Tom
Uncle
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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
Maximilian Schell
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Film Actor
Energy
Entertainment
Europe
Moral
Poetic
Theater
Younger
Institution
More Power
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach
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Film Director
Addiction
Laughing
Losing
Losing Control
People
Pleasure
Sitting
Theater
Love I Am Me
Love Me I Am
Dysfunctional
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Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
/
Actress
Creating
Dues
Paid
Pay
Theater
Time Your People
Actor
Career
Writers
Time People Your
Hard Time
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I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
Julie Taymor
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Director
Good Actors
Hours
People
Process
Rehearsal
Theater
Three
Two
Good People Way
Good Process People
Detailed
Directed
Films
Performance
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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Jeff Koons
/
Artist
Art
Believe
Concern
Morality
Philosophical
Psychological
Statements
Theater
Underdog
Art Believe I Believe
Across
Showing
Socially
Speaking
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Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
Jerome Lawrence
/
Playwright
Blessing
Bored
Boredom
Broadway
Competition
Play
Stage
Theater
Price
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I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
Amy Adams
/
Actress
Dinner
High School
Theater
Absolutely
Graduated
Musicals
Tommy
Tour
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
William Gibson
/
Novelist
Movie
Able
Blade Runner
Imagine
Minutes
Theater
Way
Afraid
Blade
Watch
Few
Runner
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon
/
Actor
Moved
Satisfying
Sequels
Theater
Wow
Love Always New
Continuous
Love New Always
Performance
Suddenly
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I looked at theater, in the sense that theater is unmanipulated. If I want to pay more attention to one character on stage than another, I can. I think there's not enough theater in film and not enough film in theater, in a way.
Sam Levinson
/
Attention
Character
Film
Pay
Stage
Theater
Looked
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The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and accepting of the fact that success is not predicated on your movie showing in a traditional theater for a certain amount of time.
Ava Duvernay
/
Filmmaker
Amount
Theater
Traditional
Success Time Your
Consumer
Deciding
Showing
Success Is
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In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.
Toni Tennille
/
California
Coast
Earth
Mother
Mother Earth
Musical
Southern
Southern California
Theater
Hit
Small
Member
Rock
Repertory
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They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
Derek Jacobi
/
Actor
Doors
Saws
Supportive
Theater
Life Always My Life
Totally
Closed
Opened
Otherwise
Thrills
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If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
/
Stage Director
Classic
Heroines
Negativity
Powerful
Theater
Women Woman Doing
Played
Woman
Often
Forces
Lady
Macbeth
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I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
August Wilson
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Playwright
Ability
Audience
Communicate
Community
Fascinated
Ideas
Theater
Witness
Me People Ideas
Community Me People
Bear
Drew
Gather
Virtues
Remain
Willingly
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In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.
Tim Dekay
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Actor
Art
Academy
Deaf
Evening
Hollywood
Lots Of Friends
Television
Theater
West
Arts
Production
Member
North
Sciences
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I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
Alan Alda
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Actor
Actors
Theater
Waiting
Winning
Twice
Actor
Wait
Leading
Nominated
Supporting
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Actor
New York
Fair Share
Fortunate
Live Theater
Theater
Thinking
Years
Fair
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein
/
Actor
Eight
Six
Theater
Week
Life Love Doing
Exact
Performance
Same Thing
Six Days
To Love
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There are always discussions about casting stars in lead roles in theater - especially when you're working with commercial producers - and it's not something I'm against, not at all. But any casting has to be right for the project.
John Tiffany
/
Casting
Producers
Stars
Theater
Commercial
Discussions
Project
Lead Roles
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
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Film Director
Arise
Cinema
Combination
Concepts
Ideas
Language
Methodology
Objects
Painting
Theater
Two
Forms
Follow
Wholly
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I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
Grey Delisle
/
Voice Actress
Kids
Class
Talking
Theater
Voice Over
Time Always Keep
Weird
Classes
Time Way Doing
Degree
Guess
Same Stuff
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I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.
Jordan Fisher
/
Dance
Acting
Special
Theater
Unique
Love Art Music
Cultivate
Depending
Develop
Helped
Performance
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My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White.' My mother was married in Cinderella's costume; the dwarves were the best men.
Ron Howard
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Film Director
Department
Folks
Married
Mother
Oklahoma
Snow
Snow White
Theater
Touring
University
White
Cinderella
Costume
Met
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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
Martin Scorsese
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Film Director
Cinema
Film
Theater
Thinking
Years
Actually
Apply
Limited
Maybe
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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
John Ridley
/
Screenwriter
Amazing
Best
Comic
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Literature
Mind
Theater
Nothing
True
Books
Blend
Comic Books
Still
Well
Some
Some People
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Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
Joan Cusack
/
Actress
Minutes
Theater
Love Work Opportunity
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Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.
David Lambert
/
Acting
Growing Up
Involved
Theater
Good Me Fun
Good Friends
Just Kind
Mainly
Met
Outlet
Supposed
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With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!
Mike Portnoy
/
Drummer
Dream
Audience
Crucial
Energy
Focal Point
Interaction
Stage
Theater
Absolutely
Bit
May Me Live
Focal
Point
Regardless
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When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels
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Film Actor
Furniture
Moving
Nicole
Theater
Craft
Egos
Homes
John
Nicole Kidman
Paying
Putting
Services
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Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.
Lea Michele
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Actress
Past
Song
Theater
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
John Patrick Shanley
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Playwright
Adopted
Blind
Disease
Enamored
Eye
Five
Involved
Rounds
Surgery
Theater
Plays
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The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.
Tim Allen
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Comedian
Advantage
Beautiful
Las Vegas
Lighting
Nice
Real
Theater
Vegas
Venues
Set
Unlike
Wear
Places
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