Theatre Quotes
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.
Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
