Quotes About Art

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

I'd love to do a play eventually, if theaters ever open again.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.