Top 1200 Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.
I don't act in sex comedies, and whoever acts in them, I don't think it's bad, because cinema, art and theatre are the mirrors of society.
I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
The worst thing is where the world people experience before they go into the theatre is far more interesting than what they encounter on stage.
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.
At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.
I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons
I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one and not the other.
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.
Some things can be hidden on TV with the help of cameras but in theatre, you are seen live by the audience, so you can't get out of your character.
In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.
I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.
All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.
Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.
The Huntington Theatre has a really fine reputation. I was keenly aware of how well thought of they are and that they develop and support new plays.
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
I joined the National School of Drama in the 1980s and for anyone who joins the NSD, they eat, sleep and breathe theatre for three years.
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.
I don't tend to write articles and blogs because, I think, if you went into the theatre knowing that this is the writer's view on x, y, and z, it's just game over for the play.
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
A.K. Hangal's work is a big contribution to serious theatre. To stick to it despite the attractions of commercial cinema is proof of his dedication.
I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.
I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
I've worn costumes all my life. I'm a theatre actress, you know. That's what I do for a living. I dress up, I wear makeup, I make a fool of myself.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
