Quotes About Performance

Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won't remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead, they will think about the last film I did.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don't pretend that I'm anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it's very liberating.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

I did a lot of theatre.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.

It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.

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.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.