Theatre Quotes

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.