Quotes About Theatre

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

I would most like to do film or TV. Possibly theatre in the future, but I'm in L.A. a lot of the time at the moment and if I was going to do theatre it would be in London.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.