Theatre Quotes

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

There's little money in theatre.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

I trained in the theatre.

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

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

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

I'd love to teach theatre arts.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) 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.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.