Theatre Quotes

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

I trained in the theatre.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.