Quotes About Theatre

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

The first time I stepped on stage in the local theatre I knew what I needed to do - I knew I had found the right place to be.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that's what has kept my love for theatre intact.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

My mom was a pillar of support to my father in his theatre endeavors.

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

I studied science. And I had a group of friends who were heavily into music and theatre.

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.