Theatre Quotes

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

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

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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

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

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

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

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

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

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

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

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

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

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

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.