Quotes About Theatre

It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors...most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous. For the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Time in the theatre is real, time in the cinema illusory. The theatre is primary, consequently it is first of all SPACE. The first plays took place in space and in a monumental slice of actual time.

The purpose of the theatre is to serve the needs of the people. The people have no servants. The people serve themselves. The people need revolution, to change the world, life itself.

Theatre is like a boat, it is only so big, but uprising is the reversal of the system, and revolution is the turning of the tides.

There is something wrong when I go to the theatre whose province is the world and instead of being brought closer to the world I am cut off from it.

It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

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 like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

but anyone who tells you it's impossible to be madly in love with two people at the same time clearly doesn't go to the theatre.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated.

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.