"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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"You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"A theater without beer is just a museum"
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"I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters."
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"Everything is theater."
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"Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre."
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"Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?"
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"I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser."
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"I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo."
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"Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man."
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"I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience."
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"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
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"You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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"There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion."
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"A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater."
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