Theatre Quotes
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For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.
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The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
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I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
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I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.
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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
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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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Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
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Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
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My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.
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I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.
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If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.
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Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?
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There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
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I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.
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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
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If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.
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People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.
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For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
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My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.
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If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.
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I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.
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The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.
