Quotes About Art

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

I did a lot of theatre.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.

Many people say that theatre has no money, but it has been the stepping stone for the best film actors of our times like Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, etc.

It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.