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I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.


Wayne Rogers

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JESSE EISENBERG Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
PAUL RUDD I majored in theater, but it was pretty obvious right off that I wasn't any good as an actor. I'd be...
CHAD BEGUELIN I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, televis...
DAVID SUCHET My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obv...
JIM PARSONS I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear...
AL PACINO I'd had no eye on the theater at all [as a profession] until that moment, even though I'd been going...
LYNN REDGRAVE My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE His brutish explosions of anger, his displays of vanity on stage were seen by pretentious and unpret...
HAROLD BRODKEY Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all abou...
SAM HEUGHAN I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at ...
MONICA VITTI In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York....
ZACH MCGOWAN The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight...
TAMMY BLANCHARD As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I ac...
COLM MEANEY In all my years in theater, I have never been involved in anything as extraordinary as this.
JULIAN GLOVER For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endles...
DAMIEN HIRST I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and...
ANNIE BAKER My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and s...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microsco...
ANDY SERKIS The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself
WILL ROGERS As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
MAGGIE SIFF I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater...
LECY GORANSON Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
MAKO I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take a...
BILLY CRUDUP 'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world ...
ELVIS MITCHELL After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very diffic...
LUKE MACFARLANE As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used impro...
JENNY DOWNHAM So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been abl...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS All the arts, particularly theater, play an important part of society.
GEORGE PETERS We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities,
MARION ROSS In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
REGGIE WATTS There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
BILL PULLMAN I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather...
RACHEL BLOOM I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all...
DIANE PAULUS It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We created the theater, independently from the church, as a nonprofit organization. The idea is to c...
GENARO MARIN I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had abou...
DAVID WROBLEWSKI I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of the...
DANIELA BOBADILLA Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friend...
WILLIAM PETERSEN Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o...
RALPH WAITE All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
SHANE CARRUTH Jason has an excellent career that includes theater, film, television and commercials. He has a grea...
ROBERT SCALES We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theate...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by ...
SOPHIA LOREN Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
ESTELLE PARSONS 'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wa...
TRACY HICKMAN Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you ...
EUGENE IONESCO I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or T...
JULIA STILES I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same ...
DARREN STAR Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in...
ARI GRAYNOR Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them f...
ECKHART TOLLE When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good lig...
TOM ARAYA I am honored to partner with Warnaco, an industry leader, to produce JLO by Jennifer Lopez Lingerie ...
JENNIFER LOPEZ I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, i...
ELIZABETH OLSEN In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a l...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I e...
MATT DILLON In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his b...
WENTWORTH MILLER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience.
DERON ASH People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theat...
ELLEN PAGE My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not...
ROBERT REDFORD I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls' private Catholic school, and one o...
DANIELA BOBADILLA The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is...
THOMAS KAIL I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of ex...
NICK OFFERMAN People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
TAVI GEVINSON Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than i...
BRIAN DENNEHY I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supp...
JANE ALEXANDER I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ 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 I bought this place, obviously, as an investment. One always looks to maximize the allure. I saw it ...
DANIEL DAVIDSON We thrive because we do musicals, ... I look at theater as a business and produce a product that peo...
JACKIE TAYLOR So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It'...
JASPER FFORDE I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that s...
PETER ACKROYD The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change ove...
PENELOPE LIVELY This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a lu...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludi...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to s...
DARREN ARONOFSKY We are all but slaves to an ideal
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 's...
AMITABH BACHCHAN The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm...
ALEXANDER HANSON I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba...
MANU BENNETT As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sin...
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WAYNE ROGERS I'm very lucky when it comes to weather.
WAYNE ROGERS When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
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WAYNE ROGERS That's the main reason: We've been delayed by wet weather a couple of times.
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WILL ROGERS Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
ROGERS HORNSBY It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
ROGERS HORNSBY Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
ROGERS HORNSBY I've never been a yes man.
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SAMUEL ROGERS Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
SAMUEL ROGERS Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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CARL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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FRED ROGERS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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WILL ROGERS I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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FRED ROGERS Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
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JIM ROGERS Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw...
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WILL ROGERS A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
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WILL ROGERS There are no small parts. Only small actors.
GINGER ROGERS Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
KENNY ROGERS The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.
KENNY ROGERS There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
ADRIAN ROGERS The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS