Theatre Quotes
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.
I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.
I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
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 want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.
I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.
Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.
Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.
In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.
Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.
As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.
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.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.
Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.
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.