...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.
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Related I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in ... UZO ADUBA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. CAROL KANE So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. JOHN GOODWIN I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and... WES ANDERSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who thin... LAWRENCE SUMMERS The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People st... MICHAEL MOORE I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to di... CHRIS BURKE I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me ... CHERRIE MORAGA Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very... MARK RYLANCE If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I&... ANTHONY WARLOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer. ROBERT MACNEIL I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are... KRISTI NOEM The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most ... BENICIO DEL TORO That is detrimental to the 135,000 good people who are fighting right now in theater and who need th... DUNCAN HUNTER Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who... LETITIA BALDRIGE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after the... CLAUDE BERRI Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of... FAITH PRINCE It depends who you talk to. There are people who are very upset about the president, ... But I have ... DON SHERWOOD Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON We are interested in producing theater in places where people are. One of the things that is really ... JEANETTE HARRISON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the... WAYNE ROGERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel... DEYTH BANGER The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel... DEYTH BANGER We are very pleased that Mr. Purviance has decided to have his first concert in Hawaii at the Palace... KAREN MOORE I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie... KATE BECKINSALE Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a ... DEIRDRE O'KANE There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in t... ATHOL FUGARD We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in an... DARREN CRISS People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never se... ANITA BROOKNER The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in... BRIAN DENNEHY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leavi... GAVIN O'CONNOR In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have di... MAX VON SYDOW Sometimes a performance is best experienced with other people. The real advantage of television - th... ROBERT THOMPSON The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous ... ALAIN PROST I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people ... JENNIFER LYNN BARNES The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the va... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical the... ANNA KENDRICK We have to promote the theater more to generate ticket sales. We want to be able to break even as a ... JULANE SULLIVAN I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of... PETER HOLLINGWORTH When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi... GRACE MORGAN Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. ... AMY IRVING I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've ... NATASHA TSAKOS Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. PAUL AMBROISE VALERY For years, people kept saying to me, 'You have such a big voice, you should go into theater.' I was ... MAUREEN MCGOVERN I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by ... SOPHIA LOREN When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and th... ADAM SHANKMAN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. BEN WHISHAW I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come ... ABBY WAMBACH I did not know he (Hagen) was known as Hamburger. We could write a book about all the people who hav... DENNIS MORLOK There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ... BEN HARNEY People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g... NICK JONAS We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things th... C. JOYBELL C. Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. PAUL VALERY For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endles... DAMIEN HIRST People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. DON DELILLO I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. AIDAN TURNER Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. GEORGE W. S. TROW I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. CESAR MILLAN Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 ... JACK O'BRIEN I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays an... ZACHARY KNIGHTON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I wa... AARON PAUL
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