Theatre Quotes
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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
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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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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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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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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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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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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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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
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Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.
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Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.
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Theatre was always my passion.
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I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: You use your hands too much.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
