Quotes About Performance

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

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

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

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

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting in its true sense.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.

I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.

It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.

When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.