Quotes About Theatre

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.