Quotes About Theatre

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

I come from a theatre group called Drama Tech in Delhi. When its founder Mr. Chopra called me and appreciated my work, that was also satisfying because he gave me my first play.

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

You should always ask for a refund at the theatre, apart from my shows, of course, where I won't be handing out any refunds.

I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to the theatre.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.