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Quote chel Replybullet Posted: 12/17/09 at 8:47am
Not inspiring per se, but one of my favorites:
 
"Actors without techies are just naked people in the dark trying to emote.  Techies without actors are people with marketable job skills."
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Quote falstaff29 Replybullet Posted: 12/20/09 at 7:39pm
In its original context, doesn't apply to theater, but a line that's always resonated with me is Steiner's remark in La Dolce Vita that he's "too serious to be an amateur, but not enough to be a professional."  I know that line describes me, and it also describes a lot of the best people I've worked with in community theater, who really work hard to put on high quality shows, demand a lot from themselves and others, and take a special pride in their work, but are also committed to their day jobs and families and life outside the theater.
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"Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs."   G. K. Chesterton
"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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Quote JoeMc Replybullet Posted: 5/23/10 at 7:27pm
I came across this on the AACT website in the a 'tip of the month' public section;-
Once in a Lifetime
On the wall of the lobby of the Performing Arts Guild of South Kitsap, of Port Orchard, Washington, is a sign that read,
 "Theater is life, film is art, television is furniture
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If you have cable, you are probably paying $1200 a year for furniture.
If you take a friend to a couple of movies a month and buy popcorn,
you are probably paying around $400 a year for art.

 What can we persuade you to pay for life?"

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"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}
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Quote doublezero420 Replybullet Posted: 5/25/10 at 2:08pm
“In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect” - Tristan Bernard

“Theaters are like brothels; one never knows what he will find inside - or whom

“Practice as if you are the worst. Perform as if you are the best."
 
and the John Barrymore quote in my sig.
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“One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me” -John Barrymore
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Quote Spectrum Replybullet Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:25pm
I know this thread is old, but I just discovered a bunch of quotes that I think are worth repeating.  Enjoy!
 

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. – Gwyneth Paltrow

  

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.  – Thornton Wilder

 

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.  – Tallulah Bankhead

 

Theatre going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. – Robert Brustein

 

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.  - Robert Brustein
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
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