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I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• 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

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Theatre
  • Theater
  • Boston

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
  • Character
  • Theatre

• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Political
  • Theatre

• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Ghost

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
  • Hope
  • 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

• The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Theatre
  • Ever
  • saw

• I went through a low phase for two years when I had a string of flops. At that time, I even felt that I was in the wrong profession and that I should leave acting. But thankfully, I utilised that time to introspect and went on a self-exploration trip. I did theatre in between, and it helped grow the fire within me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Fire
  • Theatre

• Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Relationship
  • Theatre
  • Television

• Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Theatre

• Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Why
  • Community
  • Me

• Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Theatre

• I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Theatre
  • I Love
  • Trained

• Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.

  

  Oksana Masters

• I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

  

  Adele
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Spice Girls

• I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.

  

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