Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Packaging can be theater, it can create a story"
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Theater
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Brion James
Actor
"My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night."
Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
Matthew Morrison
Actor, Singer
"This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked."
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"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie."
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"I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater."
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"Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette."
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"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."
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"I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time."
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"The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night."
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"In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different."
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"When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater."
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"Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification."
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"The theater was my mother and my father."
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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."
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"The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives"
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"Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets."
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"I want to do # stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great."
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"Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers."
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