Quotes About Theatre

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper role aged ten in the BBC show 'The Glittering Prizes.'

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

As actresses, our loyalties lie with the community. We work with so many different producers and companies, you can't really advocate for only one - the theatre industry is so much more than that.

After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back to the theatre and started directing and producing, and found I enjoyed it as much, if not more, than acting.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

The beauty with U.K. productions is that, most of the time, you get all of the scripts when you audition for them.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

I used to do some ushering work at the theatre, which was pretty humbling; it made me realise how difficult the profession I'd chosen was going to be.

Ever since I had decided to study at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, I had wanted to take up acting as my profession.

The way Raj Kapoor saab acted and directed all his life, I don't think there is anyone today who can even touch him. He was also from a theatre background. I consider him the teacher of creativity.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

Pay disparity is something I don't like honestly. I feel it depends on say, if any actress and actor at the same level bring in same number of people into theatres, they should be paid equally. That's just what I believe in.

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.