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• I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing ‘Henry,’ I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There’s always spillover. Actors speak of this.

  Michael Rooker

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• I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

  Idina Menzel

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• My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

  Brion James

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• I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

  Brett Ratner

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• You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

  Brett Ratner

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• Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

  Paul Rudd

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• Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

  Blair Underwood

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• When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that’s all I want to do with my life and she said if you’re serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

  Blair Underwood

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• When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience.

  Franz Grillparzer

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

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• Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

  Bill Pullman

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• Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

  Bill Hybels

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• I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

  Frank Rich

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• The theater is a tough place. It’s not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

  Patti LuPone

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• I’ll see you at the theater tonight. I’ll hold your seat til you get there. After that you’re on your own.

  Bert Kalmar

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• I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

  Benicio Del Toro

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• But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

  Beatrice Wood

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• I long to get back into theater.

  Antonio Banderas

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• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it’s repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  Fiona Shaw

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• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I’m bored by it.

  Fiona Shaw

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