Quotes About Entertainment

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the 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.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

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

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.

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

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.

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

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

I would most like to do film or TV. Possibly theatre in the future, but I'm in L.A. a lot of the time at the moment and if I was going to do theatre it would be in London.

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

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.