Top 1200 Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.
Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached.
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.
The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
I've always loved acting but never thought I could do theatre because I got the worst stage fright ever.
I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.
I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them that they're just dedicated and loyal.
When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'
I sing all the time, and my co-actors from theatre arena feel that my choice of songs and timing is bad - not that I pay heed, though.
Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.
I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.
When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with the theatre scene here on a personal level.
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.
When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
What we do in theatre is unlike film or any other medium. We can never really truly see the work that we made because we're in in.
Star Theatre in Shyambazar makes up a big chapter in my life. I worked there for three years during my struggling days.
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in my hands, for two hours. And I was happy doing that.
If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.
My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.
I didn't want to direct any more theatre because I wanted to try something different, to move into another realm.
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you're totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.
I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.
Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.
