Theatre Quotes

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.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

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!

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.

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.

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 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.