Theatre Quotes

• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Theatre
  • Competition
  • Most

• My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Running
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • London

• Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

  

  John Gallagher, Jr.
  • Community
  • Auditions
  • Manhattan Theatre Club

• My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

  

  David Wenham
  • Up
  • Action
  • Theatre

• I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Up
  • Work
  • Girl

• I will always choose to work in a movie based on whether I would want to watch it - if I would be willing to spend money in a theatre on it. The script and the people you will work with come after that.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Ending

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

  

  James Agate
  • Theatre
  • Management

• A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Nice
  • Theatre

• I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Comedy
  • Training
  • Theatre

• If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

  

  Catherine Tate
  • Moments
  • Stars
  • Excited

• Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.

  

  David Tennant
  • Fire
  • Theatre

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

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Theatre

• I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Money
  • Theatre

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