Top 737 Theatre Quotes

I did audition a lot. One’s agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there’s more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I hope to be still acting when I’m 70 on TV, film and theatre.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I got one of the best sax players in the business – Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you.

I’ve been acting since I was 8 – I used to play hockey and there was a kids’ theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’

I did ‘Degrassi’ for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven’t regretted – hopefully I won’t! I really wanted to go to school.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it’s more like an actor learning a part.

I love old movies. The ’40s theatre pace is fantastic.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

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.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I’m a big musical theatre geek.

There’s something about doing theatre in London – it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It’s something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they’ve got hearts that are working and they’ve got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they’re living in.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

For the theatre one needs long arms… an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

I’d like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot – these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other – coming to a theatre near you!

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with… it feels like the best opportunity that’s ever come your way, whether that’s in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.

People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straight forward.

I love theatre because it’s just me and the audience. It’s the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida – a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you’re up there on your own, it’s quite scary and revealing because you’re playing your own songs. It’s like a one man show that you’ve written yourself.

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.

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

‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, ‘You start this film off and you end this film. I don’t want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?’ He was dead serious.

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema – some actors don’t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, ‘One day I want to have a movie here’ And then later on, when ‘Save The Last Dance’ premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor’s job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

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

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don’t really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

I’ve made a good amount of money. I’m very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I’m ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don’t hold truck with that, but you can’t stop people from feeling it.

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

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

Live theatre provides a rush you can’t get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.