#theater

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

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This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#ludicrous #repertory #specialization #such #theater

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#cracking #doing #get #hearing #i

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. ↗

— James Lipton

#between #difference #film #film acting #fundamental

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. ↗

— John Lithgow

#carousel #darkest #experiences #exuberant #filled

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. ↗

— John Lithgow

#end #go #most #sensible #sitcom

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#does #holds #know #person #should

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters. ↗

— Derek Luke

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