Theatre Quotes
Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.
