Theatre Quotes

• I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • School
  • Theatre

• That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Done
  • Why
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Film
  • Exercise

• Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Family
  • Business
  • Friends

• There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Theatre
  • Dirty

• Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Important
  • Theatre

• I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.

  

  Christian McKay
  • People
  • Help
  • Hand

• The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • Theatre

• I did a lot of theatre.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Theatre

• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Author
  • Littles

• My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Film
  • Lucky
  • Phrases

• 'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Serious
  • Theatre
  • Miracle

• I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Question

• I'm not real. I'm theatre.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Theatre

• 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

• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • English
  • Theatre
  • Absurd

• We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is pleased to display his infinite perfections on this illustrious theatre.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • World
  • Wise
  • Theatre

• I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I was listening to a lot of music that was around us all the time, around the guys I was working with, and the kids - lots of young grime artists from London.

  

  Joe Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Different
  • Society
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Theatre

• Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • People
  • Theatre

• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Thinking
  • Actors
  • Healthy

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