Theatre Quotes
All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.
I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.
We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.
I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.
