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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kim Cattrall

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic"

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The line lands like a gentle slap at a culture that worships replay. Kim Cattrall is defending theatre not as a “higher” art, but as a stubbornly living one: it resists the algorithmic dream of endless replication. Film and TV are built to be duplicated perfectly, then redistributed until they’re wallpaper. Theatre, she argues, refuses that economy. It decays, adapts, mutates. It’s organic in the way bodies are organic: responsive, fallible, and irreducibly present.

Her insistence on “again and again and again and again” isn’t just emphasis; it’s imitation. The rhythm mimics the monotony of reruns, binge loops, and franchised performances that prize consistency over risk. Underneath is an actor’s hard-earned preference: theatre demands you meet the audience where they are tonight, with the voice you have tonight, inside the room’s particular weather. A laugh lands differently. A pause stretches. A mistake becomes a new truth. That’s not a bug; it’s the point.

Cattrall’s context matters. She’s a performer known to many primarily through screen work that can be replayed endlessly, memed, clipped, and flattened into “iconic” moments. Theatre offers her a kind of privacy inside publicity: the work happens and disappears, leaving only memory and rumor. “Organic” is also a sly rebuke to perfectionism. In live performance, you don’t get to airbrush the human out of it. You have to let the organism breathe.

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Cattrall, Kim. (2026, January 18). Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theatre-cant-be-done-again-and-again-and-again-23450/

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Cattrall, Kim. "Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theatre-cant-be-done-again-and-again-and-again-23450/.

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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theatre-cant-be-done-again-and-again-and-again-23450/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Kim Cattrall (born August 21, 1956) is a Actress from England.

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