Theatre Quotes

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

I have such a passion for theatre.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part of this show and the Fringe would be a great experience.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do I feel guilty about not doing too many things.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

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.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.