Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Al Pacino

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification

David McCullough

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Catherine Deneuve

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

Charley Pride

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

Ai Weiwei

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Benicio Del Toro

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Antonin Artaud

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Antonin Artaud

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

Bertolt Brecht

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Beth Henley

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

Anton Chekhov

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Arundhati Roy

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Devon Sawa

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Brian Blessed

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

Billy Bob Thornton

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

Dennis Christopher

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Dan Stevens

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

Elia Kazan

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

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Ben Nicholas

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

Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Dominic Monaghan

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

Tim Crouch

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

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

Andrzej Wajda

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

Ajay Naidu

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