Theatre Quotes
Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.
Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.