Theatre Quotes
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People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
Austin Pendleton -
There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.
Marianne Elliott
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When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
James Hetfield Metallica -
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
Eugene Ionesco -
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
Mike Figgis -
Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.
Angelina Jolie -
Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.
Haris Pasovic -
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
Seamus Dever
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
George Clooney -
Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
Toby Stephens -
In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
Saul Rubinek -
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
Israel Horovitz -
I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
Sarah Sutton -
My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday -
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.
Alistair Beaton -
I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.
Eugene Simon -
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.
Wole Soyinka -
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.
Vanessa Kirby
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I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
Renee O'Connor -
I've always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.
Alex Lawther -
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
Rupert Penry-Jones -
I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.
Steven Berkoff