Quotes About Theatre

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you.