Theatre Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

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.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

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

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

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

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!