Quotes About Theatre

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

I'd love to teach theatre arts.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to the dream-like quality of our lives, their brevity, mutability and lack of solid grounds. As such, by reminding us of our mortality, it can foster in us the virtue of humility.

Literary figures have no pre-history. It is said that a theatre director who was staging one of Harold Pinter's plays asked the playwright for some hints as to what his characters were up to before they came on stage. Pinter's reply was 'Mind your own fucking business.

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

God invents musical theatre. Satan voluntarily opts for Hell.