Annie Baker
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DAMIEN CHAZELLE BRIAN DENNEHY JESSE EISENBERG IAN MCKELLEN HUGH JACKMAN It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided my... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be fil... DEREK HOUGH I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than ... KATIE LECLERC NATURI NAUGHTON 'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' &... RETTA I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, an... JEREMY BULLOCH JOE ROGAN I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN ADAM WEST MAE WEST Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a ... NINA ARIANDA An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in genera... BOB IGER I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. ... SUTTON FOSTER I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me. DAVID DENMAN JHUMPA LAHIRI DAVID O. RUSSELL WOLE SOYINKA CAMERON MATHISON NICK JONAS PATRICK WILSON We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo... ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN ADAM DRIVER I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with... SAFFRON BURROWS With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They fee... WAYNE MCGREGOR There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant react... SAMANTHA BARKS SOPHIA LOREN We want to create a theater that people take home and think about and mull over - and perhaps make s... JOSEPH MCGRATH I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more.... AMANDA PLUMMER I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work et... LAZ ALONSO I'm very resistant to most forms of theater. STEVEN BERKOFF GILLIAN ANDERSON So I started home schooling. I was a little freaked out about that, because I' m such a social p... STACIE ORRICO I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. GARY SINISE In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time becau... COREY REYNOLDS With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like yo... ADRIA ARJONA We think that the character is actually modeled after Noel Coward himself. It's a play about a very ... JOHN HEIDER GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the a... PATTI LUPONE AMY GRANT I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'W... LEVI MILLER I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel ver... HUGH DANCY It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a who... DARIN STRAUSS I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of ex... NICK OFFERMAN I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ... BILLY PORTER When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating! LAURA MARANO It's so crazy now with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually inte... MAC DEMARCO I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the... WAYNE ROGERS DALLAS ROBERTS Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big... BARRY SONNENFELD CARA DELEVINGNE JASPER FFORDE I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch... KRISTEN CONNOLLY Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the un... FINN WITTROCK I get a little freaked out when I'm around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-h... JESSE PLEMONS ALAN BALL When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ... SAM CLAFLIN TIM BURTON I got into a conversation with EMI, and they said they were very interested in releasing the song be... EVA SIMONS I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to... ALAN CUMMING LUCAS GRABEEL JAMES WAN Puerto Rican culture is very lively; very lively people; very warm people; and the food is really gr... DAVID LAMBERT Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 ... JACK O'BRIEN ADAM DRIVER When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and th... ADAM SHANKMAN MARK RYLANCE BARBARA HERSHEY EVE ARNOLD Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you&#... DIANE PAULUS RACHEL DRATCH I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it... GAVIN MACLEOD I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ... MAKO SOPHIA LOREN The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, televis... DAVID SUCHET GUGU MBATHA-RAW Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein... WILLEM DAFOE I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m... TREVOR ST. JOHN ALAN RICKMAN There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on t... DANA BRUNETTI It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a n... ZHANG XIN The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, ... CONDOLA RASHAD
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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table... ANNIE BAKER Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then... ANNIE BAKER I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't ta... ANNIE BAKER There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like ... ANNIE ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock... ANNIE GOLDEN ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and... ANNIE PROULX ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE PARISSE ANNIE DILLARD I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa... ANNIE GOTTLIEB ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE JACOBSEN Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she i... ANNIE GOTTLIEB I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten. ANNIE ILONZEH ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors do... ANNIE POTTS ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE BESANT ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE BESANT ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE BESANT One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel... ANNIE BRYANT ANNIE LEIBOVITZ You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. ANNIE PROULX Your body is an intelligent organism; it knows how to heal itself. ANNIE WILSON ANNIE BESANT My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for... ANNIE WOLAVER My grandpa always says he likes music that still sounds good when you unplug it. ANNIE WOLAVER When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ... ANNIE WOLAVER I was named after her. Being named after my great-grandmother shows how God works through the genera... ANNIE WOLAVER There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us. ANNIE STETLER You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding... ANNIE STETLER It's like the seventh level of Hell. ANNIE STETLER They were just running wild all over the property. It was worse than anything I have seen, worse tha... ANNIE STETLER It was horrific, I don't know how else to explain it. ANNIE STETLER We learned to feed off each other even more this season than last. Her moving up top just made my jo... ANNIE STALZER It was starting to get pretty frustrating toward the end of my sophomore year. Teams would put two a... ANNIE STALZER It's always difficult playing against a great team because you can't play your own game. You have to... ANNIE STALZER This is amazing, beating the No.1 team in the nation and getting to play for a state championship my... ANNIE STALZER That was big. It really gave us a little more confidence. ANNIE STALZER We've been playing so well. This is the perfect season! We couldn't ask for anything better. ANNIE STALZER People today are more fluid, and they don't want to be shackled with one color palette forever. ANNIE SELKE We call it tradition with a twist. ANNIE SELKE But you need to keep things in the same color family. ANNIE SELKE A big, bold pattern on the floor is more deceptive than one on the wall. There is no way of knowing ... ANNIE SELKE The best way to stimulate emancipation is to start to educate your sons to be humans instead of men,... ANNIE SCHMIDT The vieuw that women are surpressed I have never believed. They have a lot of power, not on a social... ANNIE SCHMIDT I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos... ANNIE SCHMIDT Every story has a happy ending, you just need to know when to stop. ANNIE SCHMIDT A dutch novel is like a lame coitus ANNIE SCHMIDT I'm feeling pretty good right now, though I can never be totally satisfied with myself. But that's w... ANNIE ROSS Cranks was a huge success in London. It was Princess Margaret's favourite show, so she brought her s... ANNIE ROSS Jack Hylton said: 'I want you, I want you, but I can't offer you the part it's for a 35-year-old wom... ANNIE ROSS I asked the producer who else is doing the show. And he replied: 'Dorothy Paul, and, of course, McLe... ANNIE ROSS I asked the producer who else is doing the show. And he replied: 'Dorothy Paul, and, of course, McLe... ANNIE ROSS If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten... ANNIE PROULX I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did -- whether they ... ANNIE PROULX I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did - whether they f... ANNIE PROULX Clapping wildly for bad stuff enhances this. ANNIE PROULX If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten... ANNIE PROULX There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of ... ANNIE MCGEE They don't care. If they cared, they wouldn't let what their parents worked so hard for fall down. ANNIE MCGEE You could buy anything there ... a full-service store with a meat market and everything. My dad prov... ANNIE MCGEE Every morning after all the absentee reports were in, he would leave walking and go to your house. I... ANNIE MCGEE ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ It tells me my doctor did a good job. ANNIE HOUGHTON This is where I am. I am not leaving now. I know it might be hard for guys to focus. But that's not ... ANNIE HOUGHTON If I play my game, I think I can give some pretty hard matches. ANNIE HOUGHTON This feels so good because doctors said I might not be as good as I used to be. But I'm playing the ... ANNIE HOUGHTON I'm sure they think it's weird that I play with the boys, and I think they try to avoid me, but I ju... ANNIE HOUGHTON I never really think about playing against boys. I hit against boys every day in practice. I don't r... ANNIE HOUGHTON As a girl, I even hate losing to boys. So, I couldn't even imagine what it is like for a boy to lose... ANNIE HOUGHTON Each January, we would set aside time to pray. We had a band, families, and we traveled. We had 20 p... ANNIE HERRING That's actually how 2nd Chapter of Acts was born. Matthew and Nelly saw the power of the Holy Spirit... ANNIE HERRING We sang all over the place. ANNIE HERRING I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov... ANNIE HERRING It just didn't seem appropriate at this time. ANNIE FORT It's not like you can mail an application and get a call the next week. ANNIE FORT We have not even been served with the complaint in this matter, and so have no comment. ANNIE FORT We did the same thing with the pope movie. We don't really announce development. (CBS) may have gott... ANNIE FORT I need to know what's going on with my living situation and through the post office is the only syst... ANNIE EVANS we are anticipating that enough good and generous people will help us, just as the response has been... ANNIE EVANS We will endeavor to do all that we can for those stricken by these terrible natural disasters. The r... ANNIE EVANS If customers don't give us their new addresses I can't hold on to their mail forever. I have to retu... ANNIE EVANS So we used a coliseum address and we were evacuated again to Tennessee ...it's just been crazy. ANNIE EVANS By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing wi... ANNIE DUKE My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry. ANNIE DUKE Yes, they should be refused bail. I wouldn't like to think of a sex offender roaming the streets. ANNIE DUKE DD Tournament Poker is a great game for introducing people to the world of Texas Hold'em poker, ... ... ANNIE DUKE ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT We got a lot of experience coming back. ANNIE BASIC Kathlyn was the heart and soul of this team. We're disappointed in not winning, but not disappointed... ANNIE BASIC She gets s-o-o-o-o intense before games. I just told her to relax, go out and have some fun. ANNIE BASIC I told them they would make a run - now that's it - the run is over. We didn't fold up and I was pro... ANNIE BASIC Eileen is a great coach n she has been around a long time; she knows her stuff. I'm young, maybe it'... ANNIE BASIC It's been a hard year for Katy. She's grown three inches. I was happy to see her play so well tonigh... ANNIE BASIC We got complacent. We learned a valuable lesson. We have to take what's ours. Nothing comes easy. Th... ANNIE BASIC ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ANNIE LENNOX ANNIE JACOBSEN ANNIE BESANT ANNIE BESANT ANNIE JACOBSEN ANNIE JACOBSEN
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personaliti... 
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a produ... 
And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer. 
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved... 
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. 
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in... 
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou... 
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with aud... 
I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ... 
I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the... 
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, rid... 
Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it a... 
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no... 
I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ... 
I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm dr... 
There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. 
I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They... 
People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g... 
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater. 
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater o... 
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater. 
It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get v... 
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a l... 
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin... 
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good ... 
I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable thin... 
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It'... 
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of th... 
There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very ... 
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just... 
The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' 
I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very... 
It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel lik... 
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I ha... 
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked. 
I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by ... 
I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and... 
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. An... 
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. 
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect... 
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fas... 
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it ... 
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... 
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image ... 
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. 
In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these mo... 
Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary prie... 
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor... 
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a... 
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. 
You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected. 