Theatre Quotes

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did it better, they would come'. No. They don't come.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.

Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Musical theatre is my first love.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.