Quotes About Theatre

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.

What can I say? I was there at the right place and with the right people. My theatre background helped a lot in shaping my comic streak.

We make movies to be watched in theatres. Online streaming is more of a bonus, to revisit the film.

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Our grandparents' generation prefers to watch film on TV rather than going to the theatre because of the simple reason that they are really old. Watching a film for, say, two hours at a stretch is difficult for them.

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

My mother would strike me off if I didn't say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like 'Network' at the National Theatre, my god it's important. You feel like you can't breathe.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theatre. My dream role's already been taken by Keira Knightley in 'Pride and Prejudice.' Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.

Actors always have opinions.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.

We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to a club. I was outgoing and did a lot of elocution, singing and theatre.