Theatre Quotes

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.