“This business is very challenging--you must get used to rejection no matter what level you are at. Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it. Because there is nothing more rewarding”
‘I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn’t deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don’t think it is theater.‘
-Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons steps in for Deanna Dunagan as Violet Weston in August: Osage County at The Music Box Theatre. For more information visit www.augustosagecounty.com
‘I love doing live theater more than anything: you get an immediate reaction, whether it’s good or bad.’
-Jane Krakowski
You can catch Jane Krakowski as Lola in City Center’s Encores series of Damn Yankees. For tickets visit www.nycitycenter.org.
“I put in all the things I’d always wanted to see onstage: propulsive freestyle rap scenes outside of bodegas, salsa numbers that also revealed character and story. I tried to write the kind of show I’d want to be in.”
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
*(describing In the Heights in his Broadway.com First Person (1/9/07))
Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett
‘Usually I’m frustrated when I look at my films and I don’t believe that I’ve made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it’s me, that I didn’t create a unique character.’
-Helena Bonham Carter
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Helena Bonham Carter starred with Johnny Depp in the movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, now available on DVD, for more information visit www.sweeneytoddmovie.com
photo credit: broadway.com
“My heritage is a long line of Southern Baptist and Methodist preachers—who were all just frustrated actors”
-Deanna Dunagan
You can catch Deanna Dunagan’s amazing performance as Violet Weston in August: Osage County at The Music Box Theatre. For more information visit www.augustosagecounty.com
‘Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise. ‘
-Harvey Fierstein.
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You can catch Harvey Fierstein at the Walter Kerr Theatre ( 219 West 48th Street) in A Catered Affair | (212) 239-6200.
photo credit: Leslie Hassler
‘At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.’
Laura Linney.
* You can catch Laura Linney in Roundabout Theatre Company’s new production of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The American Airlines Theatre, for more information visit www.dangerousonbroadway.com
‘When I meet talented directors I get really giggly to the point of it being really ridiculous so that’s how I knew I respected them.’
-Gina Gershon
*Gina Gershon is currently starring as Gabriella in Broadway’s comedy BOEING BOEING. For ticket information visit: www.telecharge.com
“I’d rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in America.”
photo credit: Eamonn McCabe
‘What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.‘
-Edward Albee
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“Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.”
-Art Garfunkel
(photo credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
“In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!”
-Bernadette Peters
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