Clarke Peters famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
-- Clarke Peters

#Exercise #Long #Theater
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
-- Clarke Peters

#Rocks #Jazz #Rock Music
I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.
-- Clarke Peters

#Actors #Stage #Performances
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
-- Clarke Peters

#Jobs #War #Thinking
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
-- Clarke Peters

#America #Literature #Minutes
You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.
-- Clarke Peters

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Needs
I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.
-- Clarke Peters

#Guy #Theatre #World
Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.
-- Clarke Peters

#Looks #Stories #Actors

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
I have a passion to do theater.
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

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