Theatre Quotes
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Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh voices continue to emerge.
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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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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
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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.
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I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.
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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.
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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.
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
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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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Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
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In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
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I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
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When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.
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Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!
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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!’.
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The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
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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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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.
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I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
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A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
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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 commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.
