Theatre Quotes
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Besides with a massive, imponderable work like this, you can only ever get near it and challenges like that restore your confidence. I feel more ready for theatre than ever.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
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My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.
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Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
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Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
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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.
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Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
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Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
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Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
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I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
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I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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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.
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I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing... I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it.
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I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.
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I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
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It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
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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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You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.
