Eugene Simon Quotes

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Theatre
  • Parent

• My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Loved
  • Performance

• Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • End
  • Theatre

• I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Business
  • Always
  • Theatre

• I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Country
  • Done
  • Training

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Time
  • Action
  • Theatre

• I'd love to teach theatre arts.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • Theatre

• You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Night
  • Energy
  • Theatre

• Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Theatre

• I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Joy

• Theatre is immediate gratification.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Theatre

• I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Men
  • School
  • Movie

• It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

  

  James Payn
  • Important

• Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Deep

• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life
  • Humility

• If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Experience
  • Words

• I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

  Eugene Simon
  • Theatre
  • Liberating
  • West End