Quotes About Theatre

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.