Theatre Quotes

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

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.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

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.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

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!

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.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

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.