Top 1200 Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
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.
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
There are all kinds of films being made but I feel watching a film in a theatre is quite a family experience and when you can't do that, what's the point?
From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
For someone who works in theatre, the rehearsal is where you discover everything. It is where magic happens, where the script enters you and becomes part of you.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
I remember seeing Oliver!' when I was six and having vertigo in the theatre - I experience that even when I go to theatres now.
I could've made more of an effort to go back to theatre but I fell into the trap of recognition, fame and money.
We used to stay in Aundh and as a kid I remember going to a single screen theatre to watch 'Sholay' with my family.
Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
Earlier, even I used to think that I would be doing theatre all my life, but as I grew, I understood that it was not practically possible.
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
You'd need to polish your skills as you only get one chance. In cinema, retakes are possible but in theatre, there are none.
Even if I'm in a movie theatre, I'll touch up an hour into the film because I know I could be a little shiny.
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.
In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every individual performance.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.
I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.
Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.
I sneaked out of school to watch 'Nayakan.' I must have watched it at least 15 times at Anand theatre.
Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
Coming out at the Theatre of Dreams is unbelievable. I'll always love it and never get used to the sound of the fans.
In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
In all these years of doing theatre, I've been a very physical performer - physically demonstrative, yet sticking to the realism of the piece.
There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.
I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.
I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
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.
My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.
You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
I am not a trained singer, but I used to sing for my father's theatre troupe and that's where I learnt the ropes of pitch and rhythm.
After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
