Theatre Quotes

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

You can only do so much theatre.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

Musical theatre is my first love.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.