Theatre Quotes

• In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

  

  Anne Bogart
  • Literature
  • Theatre
  • Memory

• You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.

  

  Mark Strong
  • People
  • School
  • Money

• I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Stars

• I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • School
  • Dad
  • Theatre

• I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.

  

  Victoria Hamilton
  • Decision
  • Theatre

• When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

  

  Epictetus
  • Theatre
  • Wise Men
  • Airs

• Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

  

  Katori Hall
  • Men
  • Theatre
  • Dying

• In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

  

  Charles Keating
  • Theatre

• I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • People
  • Hate
  • Wish

• I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Theatre

• He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... He was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Home
  • Together
  • Father

• That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

  

  Clotilde Hesme
  • Work
  • Why
  • Theatre

• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Church
  • Rock
  • Dance

• A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Theatre

• I would quite like to try my hand at directing although I would do it in the theatre rather than in TV or film. Theatre is more just about telling the story. I understand the way the theatre works. I will leave the TV to the experts. Doctor Who is very complicated to direct. It would be impossible to direct that and act in it as well.

  

  David Tennant
  • Hand
  • Theatre

• If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • People
  • Movie
  • Theatre

• I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Theatre

• Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension. It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination. A passport to all what ifs.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Imagination
  • Voyage
  • Archives

• 'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Theatre

• It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • Real
  • Theatre

• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Theatre

• The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

  

  Joe Thomas
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Theatre

• Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Career

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