Quotes About Art

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

I have such a passion for theatre.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.