Quotes About Art

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre - and a place like 'Powerhouse' - is that who you are is informing your work. There's actually no separation from that.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.

With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

The first time I stepped on stage in the local theatre I knew what I needed to do - I knew I had found the right place to be.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.