Theatre Quotes
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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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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
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My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.
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Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.
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There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.
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I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
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I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
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I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.
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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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Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
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That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.
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I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
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I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.
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The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses... It doesn't get better than that.
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My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do.
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When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
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I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
