Theatre Quotes
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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
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Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
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Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.
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I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
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'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
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Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.
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Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.
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My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.
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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 guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
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You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.
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I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them - the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.
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I saw a play in a black box theatre, and it changed my life.
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I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.
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There's no real theatre without taking risks.
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I would love to do a play, but I don't know about musical theatre. I've never done anything like that.
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I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
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In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the cut. In IMAX, suddenly that's like 20 feet. So I would love to do something. I think I would really want to take the massive screen into consideration so that it would be done properly.
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
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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.
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What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
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I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
