Quotes: theater
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!.
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I'm going to the theater to have fun. I do not need rape, sodomy, incest and drugs on stage - I can get all that at home
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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
