Top 1200 Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
During dad's time, we didn't have many sabhas to nurture plays. Later soaps threatened to subdue theatre.
As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
I worked out that you could have an interplay of comedy and theatre and achieve more than the sum of its parts.
I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.
I suppose there's a particular kind of efficiency about coming from a theatre tradition. You don't make a fuss, and you're cheap.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I started my acting career in 1974 through theatre and I was also a student of the National School of Drama.
I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.
Today if any actor says that he has done theatre before, he is considered to be a good one, which is ridiculous.
After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
I always wanted to do theatre but never really took it up, as I was more inclined towards dance and films.
When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
I understand people want to feel safe when they go to the theatre, thats the primary and most important thing.
There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
Be it television, theatre, or radio, I can work in any medium. I don't want to limit myself to just movies.
I might have had my highs and lows in cinema and television but in theatre the response has always been positive.
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
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.
I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.
I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.
I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
If you are not getting people who have never been to the theatre before to come, then you are not doing your job.
I stumbled into acting. My dad, James, was a barrister but he was always very creative and he loved theatre and the arts.
