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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Theater Nature Text Images
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

Package Theater Create Story
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Study Theater London Suggest
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

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I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.

Dark Grew Just Kid
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Make Open People Powerless
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I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare

Know Love Other Shakespeare
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Free Liv Live Theater Me
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Ever Got Interested Really
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Another Appropriate Discipline Inventions
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

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DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

Good job Lovely Apartment Very nice
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

Arenas Audience Create Feel
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Actor Adjust Big Film
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Between Born Halfway IWasBorn
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promise Crying Babies Carried
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
Time Hunk Block Need
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Find Life Living Nocturnal
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Available Because Becomes Done
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Characters Cord Cut Own
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Australia Entrenched Long Tradition
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What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

About Big Career Continuation
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

Been Kid Moved Friends
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Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Animals Because Child Could
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

Building Centers Theaters Inner-cities
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The fastest or easiest way to be recognized as a theater practitioner, back then and now is to be in front of the camera.

Fastest-way Recognized Practitioner Front
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Able Also Been Come
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The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Demographics Different Many Now
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

Anything Best Best Part Bigger
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I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Great Drama teacher High school Learn
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If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Back Before Doing Film
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Pretty girl Stage Professional Undertakers
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

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Politics is theater. It doesn’t matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, “I’m here, pay attention to me.

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When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Really Love Theater Unmerciful life
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Theater Resonate Heart Movie
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Movies Plot Story heavy
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Movies Plot Theater Ideas
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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