Quotes About Drama

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

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.

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.

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.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

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

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

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

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

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

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

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

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.