Quotes About Performance

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

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.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

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

I want to keep doing interesting work with interesting people in whatever form that may take, but I want to play the big parts of classical theatre; I want to go on stage and play great Shakespearean roles and, at the same time, do amazing, challenging indie films and comedy, and I want to do it all. I am greedy.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you.

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.