Theatre Quotes

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

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.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

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

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

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.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

The thing is, is that I hate theatre, but it was how I learnt to sing.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

More young people need to come to the theatre in general.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

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

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

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

I grew up performing in theatre.

You can only do so much theatre.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches