Theatre Quotes

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.