Top 1200 Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I grew up in the theatre.

The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket prices are high. Otherwise they'd just stay home, buy DVDs or download movies. But if there were only big budget movies it would be impossible for the film industry to survive. So I emphasize the importance of mid-range films. But those films need the support of theatre owners. The theatre chains have to have the vision to realize the need to support smaller films for the growth of the domestic film industry.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

Theatre is immediate gratification

No space should be safe from theatre.

I'd love to play a lead in the theatre.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.

The theatre community is so powerful.

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.

I don't have any acting or theatre background.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

I don't miss theatre.

I trained in the theatre.

All theatre is absurd.

I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

I love going to the theatre.

You can only do so much theatre.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

Theatre was always my passion.

I did a lot of theatre.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I don't see enough theatre.

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

I did half a year of theatre.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

Musical theatre is my first love.

I think there is no world without theatre.

In theatre, the uglier you are, the better actor you are.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

I think it's a great thing that women went out in droves to see Sex and the City movie. I think it's wonderful and I think women have always shown they're looking both to be entertained and challenged in a theatre. I don't think women are afraid of movies that make them think; make them feel sad. The movies that I've been associated with are not exactly Sex and the City but women are leading the way to the theatre on those. They used to call it a date movie where the girl gets to choose.

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

I have such a passion for theatre.

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

I've always been a part of theatre.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

I've always wanted to get into theatre.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.

Theatre is my first love.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

There's little money in theatre.

I'd love to teach theatre arts.