Theatre Quotes
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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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Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.
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I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.
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I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right.
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I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'
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I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I'll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don't watch my videos, and they don't really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood.
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I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.
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By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.
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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 did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.
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Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.
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I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.
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I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
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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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Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.
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I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.
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I'm a massive hater of 3D. I don't like it at all. For me, you go to a movie theatre and you want to be taken to a place and transported to a place and be in that environment, and I know 3D is meant to do that, but the effect for me is the reverse. I feel like I'm looking though muddy water, and I can't really see the image.
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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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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 majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.
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The idea of audiences becoming part of the show is, I think, where theatre is going.
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There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.
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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
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I would most like to do film or TV. Possibly theatre in the future, but I'm in L.A. a lot of the time at the moment and if I was going to do theatre it would be in London.
