Quotes About Culture

Make it compulsory that at least four weeks in a year the theaters have to screen local films and let them choose the time. That's how you have to encourage the industry.

I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really speak English, so I don't think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil.

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.

I think there is no world without theatre.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.