Theatre Quotes

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

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.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

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

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

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

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

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

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

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

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

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

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

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

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.

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

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

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

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.