Quotes About Theatre

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....

When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change.

If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

I love the theatre and Miller is one of my all-time favourite playwrights. 'All My Sons' is a very socialist play, which exposes the lack of empathy that can accompany capitalism when it is left unchecked.

I studied in Glasgow and, when I was young, I spent four years solely in theatre.

I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together to solve international problems, the reality is the U.N. isn't all that different from any other political body. Countries and individuals play to the cameras, create good theatre, and negotiate selfishly.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with.

Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

Just memorizing and emoting, for that you get paid. But that isn't acting.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

The biggest difference between the two is how intimate the theatre is. Film is so different because, when youre on set, even if a joke lands, no one is going to laugh, because nobody wants to mess up a take.

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

When I tried to do 'Waiting for Godot, it was such a controversy. I was tired of political theatre. All I wanted to do was 'Godot.' You know what happened? We were told we had messed up and politicised a classic that has nothing to do with S.A.

I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.