Theatre Quotes

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

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

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

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

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

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

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

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

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

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

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

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

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

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

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

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

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

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

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