Quotes About Performance

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

You can only do so much theatre.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.