Quotes About Stage

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

I grew up performing in theatre.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

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

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

I am a huge theatre geek.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.