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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

— William Hurt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

— Harvey Fierstein

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

— Dan Stevens

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

— Kim Cattrall

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

— Phylicia Rashad

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

— Reggie Watts

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

— Jessie Matthews

✗Opposing Perspectives

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

— Patrick Wilson

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

— Stephen Daldry

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

— Gore Vidal