Quotes About Performance

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

You should always ask for a refund at the theatre, apart from my shows, of course, where I won't be handing out any refunds.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to the theatre.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

When I left school I did far more theatre than anything else and it was exciting.