#heat

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. ↗

— Boris Spassky

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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 was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. ↗

— James Stewart

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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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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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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one. ↗

— Preston Sturges

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