Theatre Quotes
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.
If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.
I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons
I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.
Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.
I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.
I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
