Top 1200 Theatre Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
I did a lot of theatre in school and loved performing in front of people.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
I always had this concept of mobile theatre, to promote the learning of acting.
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.
People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.
The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
I don't discern between OTT and theatre because this is incredible work that I 'chose' to do.
My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.
My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
When I did theatre in Delhi, often the parts were of older men.
It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.
'Spiderwoman' was wonderful. I think that show is a very important piece of theatre.
I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.
It's fantastic to be at the back of a theatre and to think, 'These people have come to see me.'
I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
I'm not afraid to go anywhere, to the smallest theatre or the least amount of money.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.
Most of the plays in Marathi theatre are for the middle aged or are family dramas.
You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.
I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.
Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.
It is exhausting to be giving one's all in the theatre, my first duty is to my paying public, of course!
I got busy with films and found it difficult to devote time to theatre.
I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.
When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.
I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.
Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.
I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
