Theatre Quotes
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My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
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You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
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In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.
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I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.
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We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets
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I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
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I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
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Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.
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Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.
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My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
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Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
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I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.
