Quotes About Passion

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

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

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

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

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

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.

Theatre just fills me up so much.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

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

Theatre was always my passion.

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.