Theatre Quotes
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Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
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The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'
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There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.
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I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
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You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.
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Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.
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Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
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For my money, all theatre should be free.
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On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.
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I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.
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I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
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I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.
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All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.
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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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I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.
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Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.
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It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.
