Theatre Quotes
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My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
Antonia Thomas
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I don't see enough theatre.
Luke Evans
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To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
Eleonora Duse
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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.
Jerry Hall
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When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
Dominic Monaghan
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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Ajay Naidu
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We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
Eleonora Duse
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
Ben Whishaw
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
Ayushmann Khurrana
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In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
Phyllida Lloyd
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If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!
Eleonora Duse
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There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.
Lonny Price
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The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.
John Tiffany
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Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.
Simon Callow
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We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.
Gavin Creel
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Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.
Philip Pullman
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I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.
John Tiffany
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I don't really have a theatre background at all.
Janeane Garofalo
