Theatre Quotes

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.

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

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

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

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

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

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

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

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

I think there is no world without theatre.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

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

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

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

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

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.