- Nov 07, 2020
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- General Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
- Festivals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking at the actors I most admire - Judi Dench, Ian Holm, that whole generation - they all started in rep and slowly built themselves into the position where they could juggle theatre and film.
- Muscles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only do so much theatre.
- Performing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up performing in theatre.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kingdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being able to do a bit of theatre, do a bit of telly, and do a bit of film.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn't do well, like 'Byomkesh.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Providence, we didn't have a first-run movie theater. But we did have an indie movie theatre on the Brown campus. That was the theater we'd go to. I think, as highbrow as it sounds, that I grew up on the films.
- Skills
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- Nov 07, 2020
My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre was always my passion.
- Social
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre worked as a big boost and improved my film career.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
- Liars
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done 16 films with David Dhawan and I have tried to do every character differently, be it Sharafat Ali, Mutthu Swamy or Calender, because of my theatre experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
- Audition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a huge theatre geek.
- Air
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd really like to come and do some theatre in the U.K.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm kind of a mutt. I was born in the U.S., my parents are from Mexico, and I grew up in Switzerland. It's weird because I sound American, but I spell theater 'theatre' with the 'r' before the 'e'.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020