Theatre Quotes

• 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.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Life
  • Art
  • Experience

• I did half a year of theatre.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Theatre

• Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Great
  • Different
  • Home

• There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Great
  • City
  • Theatre

• I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

  

  Lauren Socha
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Theatre

• Theatre gives me a different high.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Different
  • High
  • Theatre

• London is the English-speaking theatre capital.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • English
  • Theatre

• I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

  

  John Garfield
  • Theatre

• I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.

  

  Ben Brantley
  • Writing
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews and because it's very accessible. At the weekend, I get the 'Observer' because I love the food supplement, Observer Food Monthly, and the style section. And I can't resist the News of the World.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • World
  • Food
  • Style

• There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Theatre

• I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Theatre

• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• 'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Music
  • Home
  • Theatre

• I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Power
  • Play
  • Scared

• I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Theatre

• I trained in the theatre.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Theatre

• I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Science

• I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Theatre

• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Jealousy

• I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • House
  • Night
  • Control

• Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will find his or her own way to the theatre.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Children
  • Theatre

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