"With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test." - British choreographer Wayne McGregor
Showing posts with label theatre quote of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre quote of the day. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Tuesday, September 24, 2013
"With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test." - British choreographer Wayne McGregor
Friday, September 20, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Saturday, September 21, 2013
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"My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge...Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage." - Cuban-American actor Yul Vazquez
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Thursday, September 19, 20134
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| Photo: Simon Annand oldvictheatre.com |
"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work....Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. - Mark Rylance, first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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| Faith Prince |
"Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did." - Faith Prince
This turns out to be a very relevant quote for today, since The Cabaret Project open mic night is tonight at the Tavern of Fine Arts. From 7 to 10 PM this evening (and on the third Wednesday of every month), I'll be welcoming a ton of St. Louis talent being themselves and regaling you with some pretty wonderful music.
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| Carol Schmidt |
The Tavern of Fine Arts is at 313 Belt in the Debaliviere Place neighborhood. It's a very cool venue with local art on the walls and a big picture window through which you can see the locals strolling by on a fine fall evening.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Tuesday, September 17, 2013
"I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer." - Faith Prince
Monday, September 16, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Monday, Septermber 16, 2013
"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career." - Rupert Holmes
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Sunday, September 15, 2013
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| moviespad.com |
"I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real."
"I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life." - Fred Melamed, American actor and writer
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Thursday, September 12, 2013
"I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them." - Richard Madden
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Wednesday, September 11, 2011
"I knew then that every time I saw a person on the street, I saw only his public shadow. The rest, the important part, lived in layer after layer beyond my view. We have no idea what wonders are hidden in the people around us." - Joan in Anne Nelson's play The Guys, written as a tribute to the firefighters who died responding to the 9/11/01 World Trade Center attacks.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Tuesday, September 10, 2013
"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage." - Jim Dale
Monday, September 09, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Monday, September 9, 2013
"I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd." - Malcolm Boyd
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Sunday, September 8, 2013
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| en.wikipedia.org |
"Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood."
"The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory."
"At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly don't neeed you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers." - Nick Mancuso, Canadian film and stage actor
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Saturday, September 7, 2013
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| imdb.com |
"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power." - Frances McDormand
Friday, September 06, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Friday, September 6, 2013
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| bbcamerica.com |
"'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you."
"Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really."- English stage and TV actor Arthur Darvill (best known for his role as Rory in Doctor Who)
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Thursday, September 5, 2013
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| imdb.com |
"Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition." - English actress Janet McTeer, OBE
Sunday, September 01, 2013
Theatre quote of the day for Sunday, September 1, 2013
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Theatre quotes of the day for Saturday, August 31, 2013
"What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens."
"Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while."
"I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising." - American writer and stage and film actress Lusia Strus and member of The Neo-Futurists
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Theatre quotes of the day for Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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| Mathieu in Hamburg 1971 |
"I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well."
"It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on."
"I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!" - French singer Mireille Mathieu
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Theatre quotes of the day for Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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| Olivia Williams at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, 2010 |
"My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on."
"I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig."
"From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience." - Olivia Williams
Monday, August 26, 2013
Theatre quotes of the day for Monday, August 26, 2013
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| thatfilmguy.net |
"I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that."
"I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors."
"My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice." - Colm Meaney
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