Quotes About Performance

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.