Quotes About Theatre

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they're essential to our wellbeing.

the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved.

Maybe there will always be men who say the right thing at the right time, who step forward like Thespis at just the right moment of history, and then there will be men like Archie Jones who are just there to make up the numbers. Or, worse still, who are given their big break only to come in on cue and die a death right there, centre stage, for all to see

I like small actors. They are my absolute favourite.

All theatre is absurd.

My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.

I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.

I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.

I started my acting career in 1974 through theatre and I was also a student of the National School of Drama.

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.

Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.

I have done 16 films with David Dhawan and I have tried to do every character differently, be it Sharafat Ali, Mutthu Swamy or Calender, because of my theatre experience.