Quotes About Performance

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

I have such a passion for theatre.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.

I love being theatrical, we love electronics in our music, and we're not afraid to put electronics on my voice and do all these fun things.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

I was in a band with a boy who was quite androgynous and a bit bisexual, and we used to play up to that a little bit to be provocative in a theatrical way, but I guess you either are or aren't.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

I did theatrical caricatures.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.