Theatre Quotes
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
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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.
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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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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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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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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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There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
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The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.
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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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I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
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I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
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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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When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.
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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 am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
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I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.
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Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I come from England, and you have a whole range of things offered to you, from television plays and shows and theatre, so much more to explore, so it's never really money.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
