I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

David Bowie

Apart Big Important Instance

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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Libba Bray

Doing Grew I Write Long

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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Uta Hagen

Acting Angry Get Go

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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Uta Hagen

About Awhile Event Happen

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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Crowded Fire Right Free

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Ground Past Theatre Cities

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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Aaron Sorkin

About Beyond Dialogue Drama

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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

Doris Day

Fortunate Blessed Able Entertained

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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Lady Gaga

Am Committed Just Theatre

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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Teju Cole

Close Effects Framing Much

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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Cate Blanchett

Australian Been Feel IFeel

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don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Neil Patrick Harris

Audience Hear Know Listening

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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card

Actor Becoming College Director

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

Any Earlier Form Internal

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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Pete Townshend

Alive Angles Come Create

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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Rainn Wilson

About Character Me Playing

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In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

George Jean Nathan

The theatre Believe Woman Ladies

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Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

George Jean Nathan

Men Theartre Women Remember

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Roland Barthes

Arms Better Fine Gesture

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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Rosanne Cash

Another Back Children Collage

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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright

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The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character

William Godwin

Man Life Maintains Character

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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

David Bowie

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Libba Bray

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Uta Hagen

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Uta Hagen

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Aaron Sorkin

I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

Doris Day

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Lady Gaga

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Teju Cole

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Cate Blanchett

don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Neil Patrick Harris

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Pete Townshend

Rainn Wilson

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

George Jean Nathan

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

George Jean Nathan

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Roland Barthes

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Rosanne Cash

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character

William Godwin

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