Quotes About Theatre

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I used to work in a hotel kitchen at night and do theatre in the morning. After finishing my night shift - I did it for two years - I used to come back and sleep for five hours and then do theatre from 2-7 P.M. and then again hotel work from 11-7 in the morning.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting in its true sense.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.