Quotes About Theatre

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,' I realised that I could touch people's hearts when I performed.

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films, I feel I become more of an introvert, going deeper in the realism of a character.

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

I graduated college, my degree is in theatre, so I went to Chicago and tried to get into the theatre scene up there, but it was real hard to break in and find paying work.

I'm a tragedienne in some way. I think quite epically. I like epic landscapes and grand emotions.

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a bit grand, and it wasn't an amphitheatre or anything like that, just a little place with a roll-up curtain box and I'm sure the plays were childish lopsided things.

My grandmother Shelley was an actress and would tell me about working in the theatre, while my grandpa on Dad's side, Gerard Dynevor, was a big influence in theatre and a TV director.

I got a grant for the Old Vic Theatre School in London, which had just started. It was only five terms; they used to break you down and never quite put you together again but it was an excellent training.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.

Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world of people who don't go at all. I wrote 'Chewing Gum Dreams' for them - I'd love them to come.

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.

I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.