Theatre Quotes
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Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.
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Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.
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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.
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Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.
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I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
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I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
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I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.
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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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For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.
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The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.
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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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Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.
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Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.
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My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
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It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
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I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.
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All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
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The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.
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I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
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Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
