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You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

— Maxwell Caulfield

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.

— Celia Weston

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

— Tina Fey

There's little money in theatre.

— Cyrus Broacha

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

— Charles Durning

Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.

— Lillete Dubey

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

— Nia Vardalos

You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

— Dennis Christopher

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

— Colin Quinn

✗Opposing Perspectives

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

— Dianne Wiest