Favourite Theatre Quotes
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Topic: Favourite Theatre Quotes
Posted By: Nyria
Subject: Favourite Theatre Quotes
Date Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:18pm
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What's your favourite quote about theatre, acting, improv, etc. I have a couple on my drama room wall and I am looking for more Thanks -- Nyria ------------- NYRIA |
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/16/05 at 12:30am
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I don?t know who said it? But the one I like goes something like;- While Theatre is Life & Film Art. TV is still just furniture! ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 9/16/05 at 7:56am
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I love the dialog from "Shakespeare in Love" - I keep it at the
top of my website LOL "Allow me to explain about the theatre business.? The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster" " What do we do?" " Nothing.? Strangely enough it all turns out well." " How?" " I don't know. It's a mystery." ??? |
Posted By: Nyria
Date Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:59pm
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I know - I love the one from Shakespeare in Love BUT don't want my students to know it all turns out well - I want the FEAR in them
------------- NYRIA |
Posted By: falstaff29
Date Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:18pm
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"The actor who has made mistakes will get a beating; the one who hasn't will get a drink." -Plautus, The Casket :) |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:24am
No - the quote only 'works' if you truly know that it's absolutely not true. LOL |
Posted By: Giabow
Date Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:22pm
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A cast without a crew is just a bunch of people standing in the dark
reading their lines. A crew without a cast is just a bunch of people pushing buttons and moving furniture. |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/26/05 at 11:15am
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"Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." Attributed to Edmond Gwenn. And Hamlet's Advice to the Players should be posted in every green room in the world. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: falstaff29
Date Posted: 9/27/05 at 12:38am
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Also a fan of: "Truth! Your performance- the pauses, the moans, all that you clearly consider invaluable- it's utterly appalling. We must never confuse truth with asthma." -John Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet |
Posted By: Mike Polo
Date Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:12am
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"Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice." John Barrymore "My dear boy, if you would learn to act, you wouldn't have to put yourself through all that." Sir Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman regarding Hoffman's Method Acting during Marathon Man. (Possibly approcyphal, but a great story... supposedly in order to prepare for a scene where he's been up all night, Hoffman stayed up all night... prior to the scene being shot, Olivier asked Hoffman "what's the matter with you?" After Hoffman explained, he got the above quote in reply. Authentic or not, I love it.) ------------- Mike Polo Community Theater Green Room http://www.communitytheater.org http://www.twitter.com/CTGreenRoom"> 
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Posted By: Mike Polo
Date Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:15am
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By the way, I agree 100% on Hamlet's Advice to the Players. I have it hanging in my office... it was a director's gift from the cast of I Hate Hamlet, as that was the speech I beat up our Barrymore over more than anything else. ------------- Mike Polo Community Theater Green Room http://www.communitytheater.org http://www.twitter.com/CTGreenRoom">
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:33pm
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"Although I was gifted, I was surprised at rehearsals to find how much I had to learn about technique."--Charlie Chaplin "Imagination, industry, and intelligence--'the three I's'--are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination."--Ellen Terry "If you went to all the trouble to learn the lines and the blocking, make sure everyone can hear you, understand you, and see you."--source unknown "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."--Alfred Hitchcock "No makeup is complete without an actor underneath, for makeup does not in itself create character--it only helps to reveal it."--Richard Corson
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/14/05 at 1:40am
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The old chook, in the back of the God?s, has bought a ticket
------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |