Quotes About Theatre

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

I always keep planning to go back to theatre but I am waiting for a challenging and meaningful role. I want it to be something that has not been done before and excite me enough to do it.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Great actors - it's got nothing to do with colour.

I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.

No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.