Theatre Quotes
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All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.
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I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.
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Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.
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Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
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I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
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For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
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Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.
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It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
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The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
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The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.
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Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
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I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.
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All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
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I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
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The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
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I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.
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Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.
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The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.
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I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
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I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.
