#theater

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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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

#beginning #career #dedicate #enough #exciting

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions. ↗

— Ethel Merman

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That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old. ↗

— Debra Messing

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Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get. ↗

— Juliet Mills

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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium. ↗

— Clive Owen

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