"There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you."
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"There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back."
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"...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act."
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"I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater."
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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
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"I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back."
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"The only thing I won't do is theater."
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"Work in the theater is more fun than fun."
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"Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody."
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"My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness."
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"Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises."
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"When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?"
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"I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really."
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"There were centuries when civilization had no theater."
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"I love theater. I also love radio. I love language."
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"I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things."
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"Theater dates very quickly."
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"I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater."
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"I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director."
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"I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me."
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