Quotes About Performance

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom was a dancer, and that's how they met; they met in the theatre.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.