Theatre Quotes

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

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.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

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.

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.