Theatre Quotes

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

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 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?

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.