Quotes About Theatre

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.