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Births

• 1950 - Ann Wilson
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• I’ve made a good amount of money. I’m very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I’m ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.

  David Schwimmer

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  Tags in Theatre, Support

• I love directing. It’s something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

  David Schwimmer

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• My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

  Amy Schumer

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Art

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• Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

  Liev Schreiber

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• 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

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• I don’t rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

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• I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.

  Brigitte Nielsen

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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  David Amram

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• I’ve done a lot of costume drama and theatre – the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

  Brenda Blethyn

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• It’s a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

  Brenda Blethyn

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema – some actors don’t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

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• You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You’re on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

  Blythe Danner

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• Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn’t really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

  Fred Melamed

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• A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

  Franz Liszt

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• I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

  Bill Forsyth

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• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I’ll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  Patrick Marber

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• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  Patrick Marber

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• I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

  Beth Henley

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• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

  Tom Stoppard

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