Quotes About Theatre

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

When I left school I did far more theatre than anything else and it was exciting.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built architecture of the theaters because we can't let them get into disrepair. They are part of the fabric of the country.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.