Quotes about Theatre

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. Votes: 7

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Votes: 6

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Votes: 6

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Votes: 6

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. Votes: 6

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Votes: 5

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. Votes: 5

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. Votes: 5

Theatre gives you wings as an actor. Votes: 4

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. Votes: 4

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms. Votes: 4

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Votes: 4

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. Votes: 4

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home. Votes: 4

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. Votes: 4

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. Votes: 4

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world. Votes: 4

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. Votes: 4

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. Votes: 4

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. Votes: 4

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Votes: 4

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously. Votes: 4

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness. Votes: 4

Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes. Votes: 4

Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy. Votes: 4

Theatre is immediate gratification Votes: 3

Theatre is immediate gratification. Votes: 3

Theatre was always my passion. Votes: 3

Theatre just fills me up so much. Votes: 3

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves. Votes: 3

Theatre sports is the best improv training period Votes: 3

Theatre sports is the best improv training period. Votes: 3

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times. Votes: 3

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion. Votes: 3

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. Votes: 3

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier Votes: 3

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality. Votes: 3

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier. Votes: 3

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. Votes: 3

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. Votes: 3

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days. Votes: 3

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone. Votes: 3

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit. Votes: 3

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. Votes: 3

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for. Votes: 3

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare. Votes: 3

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors. Votes: 3

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Votes: 3

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment. Votes: 3

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada. Votes: 3

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project. Votes: 3

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. Votes: 3

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic. Votes: 3

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. Votes: 3

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. Votes: 3

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. Votes: 3

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. Votes: 3

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. Votes: 3

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. Votes: 3

Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Votes: 3

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men. Votes: 3

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. Votes: 3

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. Votes: 3

Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. Votes: 3

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets. Votes: 3

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. Votes: 3

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. Votes: 3

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time. Votes: 3

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. Votes: 3

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver. Votes: 3

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. Votes: 3

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night. Votes: 3

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. Votes: 3

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair Votes: 3

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B. Votes: 3

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company Votes: 3

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company. Votes: 3

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it. Votes: 3

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. Votes: 3

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. Votes: 3

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon. Votes: 3

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices. Votes: 3

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Votes: 3

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful. Votes: 3

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare Votes: 3

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. Votes: 3

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites. Votes: 3

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? Votes: 3

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that Votes: 3

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. Votes: 3

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible. Votes: 3

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university. Votes: 3

I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. Votes: 3

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it. Votes: 3

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry. Votes: 3

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business! Votes: 3

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager. Votes: 3

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money. Votes: 3

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too Votes: 3

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to. Votes: 3

I think there is no world without theatre. Votes: 2

I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks. Votes: 2

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. Votes: 2

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. Votes: 2

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience. Votes: 2

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? Votes: 2

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. Votes: 2

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet. Votes: 2

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' Votes: 2

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. Votes: 2

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. Votes: 2

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. Votes: 2

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good. Votes: 2

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Votes: 2

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. Votes: 2

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. Votes: 2

I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body. Votes: 2

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London. Votes: 2

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know. Votes: 2

Don't act. Be. Votes: 1

VIVA LA VIE BOHEME! Votes: 1

All the world's a stage. Votes: 1

What is that unforgettable line? Votes: 1

God is fucking stealing souls again! Votes: 1

I know. In fact, I am never wrong. Votes: 1

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art. Votes: 1

You'll never really be great unless you aim high. Votes: 1

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space. Votes: 1

Act well your part; there all the honour lies. Votes: 1

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art. Votes: 1

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect. Votes: 1

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith. Votes: 1

I teatri sono come vascelli rovesciati, con la stiva in alto. Votes: 1

Quanto dura? Il teatro, voglio dire?""Tutto il tempo. In eterno. Votes: 1

An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself. Votes: 1

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. Votes: 1

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more. Votes: 1

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. Votes: 1

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. Votes: 1

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion. Votes: 1

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. Votes: 1

I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre Votes: 1

The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge. Votes: 1

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. Votes: 1

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within. Votes: 1

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good. Votes: 1

All theatre, by virtue of its being a cultural construct and therefore ideologically inscribed, is political. Votes: 1

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. Votes: 1

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul. Votes: 1

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter. Votes: 1

Don't wear green in your dressing room,' suggested Miss Spink.'Or mention the Scottish play," added Miss Forcible. Votes: 1

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. Votes: 1

So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,and Robin shall restore amends. Votes: 1

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. Votes: 1

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. Votes: 1

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Votes: 1

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul." (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater) Votes: 1

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. Votes: 1

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom Votes: 1

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful. Votes: 1

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike. Votes: 1

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination. Votes: 1

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. Votes: 1

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience. Votes: 1

--and yet, whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff, as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines. Votes: 1

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there. Votes: 1

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them. Votes: 1

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you. Votes: 1

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Votes: 1

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. Votes: 1

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar. Votes: 1

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. Votes: 1

The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped / on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind / the theatre where my play is echoed by dying voices. Votes: 1

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... Votes: 1

Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms. Votes: 1

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. Votes: 1

When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves. Votes: 1

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that. Votes: 1

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning. Votes: 1

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees. Votes: 1

I've never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night,but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked,and the key is lost. Votes: 1

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please? Votes: 1

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. Votes: 1

What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you can't stop... Votes: 1

When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers. Votes: 1

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures! Votes: 1

Many in the audience consider leaving.If anyone leaves, let them leave.The theatre is not a prison.If anyone coughs, cough also.The Theatre is not a sickbed.We minister to the audience.We revere the pains of the audience. Votes: 1

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe. Votes: 1

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you. Votes: 1

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad. Votes: 1

That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment?..."-Jules, BOOM Votes: 1

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing. Votes: 1

Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side is gloriousOn either side they're just frightened men messing their pantsand they all want the same thingNot to lie under the earthbut to walk upon itwithout crutches(Roux, act 1, scene 19) Votes: 1

Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor's search is a generous quest for that larger meaning. That's why acting is never to be done passively. Votes: 1

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner. Votes: 1

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle! Votes: 1

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death Votes: 1

The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water. Votes: 1

It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative.""You don't want me to say it.""Not tonight. We have many people against us.""I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'""That's the best line. Votes: 1

I switched to thoughts of the play. It was by far the healthiest item to concentrate on. Rehearsals were only days away; there is something wildly exciting about a company assembling for the first time on stage. There is also something strangely sexy about it. I can't pin it down, there just is. Votes: 1

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well. Votes: 1

I think a person has to believe in something,or search out some kind of faith;otherwise life is empty, nothing.How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly,why children are born, why there are stars in the sky...Either you know why you live,or it's all small, unnecessary bits. Votes: 1

There's little money in theatre. Votes: 0

I'm not real. I'm theatre Votes: 0

I trained in the theatre. Votes: 0

I grew up in the theatre. Votes: 0

I'd love to teach theatre arts. Votes: 0

I grew up performing in theatre. Votes: 0

Musical theatre is my first love. Votes: 0

But theatre is always a difficult experience. Votes: 0

I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart. Votes: 0

But theatre is always a difficult experience Votes: 0

The great theatre for virtue is conscience. Votes: 0

Chess and theatre often lead to madness. Votes: 0

I love the theatre and theatre people. Votes: 0

Acting is in everything but the words. Votes: 0

I have such a passion for theatre. Votes: 0

You can only do so much theatre. Votes: 0

My heroes were all in the theatre. Votes: 0

The first perk of theatre is the girls. Votes: 0

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions. Votes: 0

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. Votes: 0

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. Votes: 0

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. Votes: 0

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre. Votes: 0

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks Votes: 0

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback. Votes: 0

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about. Votes: 0

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you Votes: 0

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre. Votes: 0

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. Votes: 0

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Votes: 0

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. Votes: 0

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre. Votes: 0

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling. Votes: 0

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. Votes: 0

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old. Votes: 0

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known. Votes: 0

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre. Votes: 0

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment. Votes: 0

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything. Votes: 0

It was only in the theatre that I lived Votes: 0

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active. Votes: 0

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway. Votes: 0

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre. Votes: 0

The history of theatre is the history of first nights. Votes: 0

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have. Votes: 0

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. Votes: 0

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission. Votes: 0

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. Votes: 0

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. Votes: 0

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. Votes: 0

I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration. Votes: 0

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember. Votes: 0

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. Votes: 0

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games. Votes: 0

The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth. Votes: 0

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed. Votes: 0

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre. Votes: 0

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man. Votes: 0

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. Votes: 0

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre. Votes: 0

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. Votes: 0

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy. Votes: 0

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace. Votes: 0

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time. Votes: 0

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. Votes: 0

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn." Votes: 0

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor. Votes: 0

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. Votes: 0

More young people need to come to the theatre in general. Votes: 0

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic. Votes: 0

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America. Votes: 0

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice Votes: 0

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college. Votes: 0

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. Votes: 0

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. Votes: 0

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. Votes: 0

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. Votes: 0

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion. Votes: 0

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing. Votes: 0

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. Votes: 0

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. Votes: 0

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. Votes: 0

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage. Votes: 0

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens. Votes: 0

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age. Votes: 0

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love. Votes: 0

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much. Votes: 0

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me. Votes: 0

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. Votes: 0

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too. Votes: 0

My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it! Votes: 0

The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse. Votes: 0

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama. Votes: 0

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre. Votes: 0

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong. Votes: 0

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. Votes: 0

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. Votes: 0

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room. Votes: 0

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character. Votes: 0

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. Votes: 0

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people. Votes: 0

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. Votes: 0

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. Votes: 0

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre. Votes: 0

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well. Votes: 0

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. Votes: 0

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased. Votes: 0

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. Votes: 0

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. Votes: 0

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV. Votes: 0

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors Votes: 0

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. Votes: 0

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. Votes: 0

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up. Votes: 0

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor. Votes: 0

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. Votes: 0

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. Votes: 0

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV. Votes: 0

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. Votes: 0

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. Votes: 0

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor. Votes: 0

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy. Votes: 0

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable? Votes: 0

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre. Votes: 0

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre! Votes: 0

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre? Votes: 0

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre. Votes: 0

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre. Votes: 0

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! Votes: 0

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre. Votes: 0

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath. Votes: 0

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island. Votes: 0

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. Votes: 0

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. Votes: 0

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film. Votes: 0

I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important. Votes: 0

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing. Votes: 0

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. Votes: 0

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Votes: 0

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. Votes: 0

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre. Votes: 0

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. Votes: 0

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. Votes: 0

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. Votes: 0

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment. Votes: 0

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. Votes: 0

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career. Votes: 0

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries. Votes: 0

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal. Votes: 0

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre. Votes: 0

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. Votes: 0

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. Votes: 0

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career. Votes: 0

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. Votes: 0

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions. Votes: 0

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young. Votes: 0

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. Votes: 0

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time. Votes: 0

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits. Votes: 0

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it. Votes: 0

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time. Votes: 0

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. Votes: 0

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too. Votes: 0

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. Votes: 0

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. Votes: 0

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. Votes: 0

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre. Votes: 0

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. Votes: 0

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited. Votes: 0

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible. Votes: 0

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard. Votes: 0

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. Votes: 0

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. Votes: 0

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything. Votes: 0

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. Votes: 0

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities. Votes: 0

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club. Votes: 0

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia. Votes: 0

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. Votes: 0

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. Votes: 0

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter. Votes: 0

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level. Votes: 0

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. Votes: 0

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert. Votes: 0

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect. Votes: 0

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time. Votes: 0

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. Votes: 0

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus. Votes: 0

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre. Votes: 0

The thing is, is that I hate theatre, but it was how I learnt to sing. Votes: 0

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory. Votes: 0

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. Votes: 0

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. Votes: 0

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage. Votes: 0

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience. Votes: 0

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. Votes: 0

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. Votes: 0

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it. Votes: 0

The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in. Votes: 0

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. Votes: 0

The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually. Votes: 0

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre. Votes: 0

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. Votes: 0

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. Votes: 0

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays Votes: 0

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can Votes: 0

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. Votes: 0

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. Votes: 0

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day. Votes: 0

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Votes: 0

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. Votes: 0

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues. Votes: 0

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left. Votes: 0

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. Votes: 0

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. Votes: 0

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. Votes: 0

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. Votes: 0

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card. Votes: 0

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years. Votes: 0

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. Votes: 0

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. Votes: 0

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress. Votes: 0

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre. Votes: 0

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then. Votes: 0

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. Votes: 0

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. Votes: 0

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. Votes: 0

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. Votes: 0

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy. Votes: 0

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now. Votes: 0

Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment. Votes: 0

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. Votes: 0

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really. Votes: 0

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently. Votes: 0

If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all. Votes: 0

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff. Votes: 0

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. Votes: 0

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre. Votes: 0

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. Votes: 0

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people. Votes: 0

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. Votes: 0

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis. Votes: 0

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. Votes: 0

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. Votes: 0

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. Votes: 0

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders. Votes: 0

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. Votes: 0

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre. Votes: 0

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up. Votes: 0

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! Votes: 0

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play. Votes: 0

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors. Votes: 0

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film. Votes: 0

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well. Votes: 0

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always. Votes: 0

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world. Votes: 0

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed. Votes: 0

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play. Votes: 0

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece. Votes: 0

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? Votes: 0

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion? Votes: 0

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like. Votes: 0

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year. Votes: 0

Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot, and then it's gone. Votes: 0

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. Votes: 0

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. Votes: 0

Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. Votes: 0

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre. Votes: 0

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it. Votes: 0

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre. Votes: 0

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player? Votes: 0

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me. Votes: 0

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money Votes: 0

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. Votes: 0

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre. Votes: 0

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug. Votes: 0

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. Votes: 0

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre. Votes: 0

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? Votes: 0

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. Votes: 0

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. Votes: 0

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. Votes: 0

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. Votes: 0

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. Votes: 0

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff. Votes: 0

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered. Votes: 0

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. Votes: 0

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. Votes: 0

I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. Votes: 0

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God. Votes: 0

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time. Votes: 0

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people. Votes: 0

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. Votes: 0

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like. Votes: 0

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place. Votes: 0

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free. Votes: 0

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot. Votes: 0