Quotes about theatre
theatre lines praying
Pray to God and say the lines. Bette Davis
theatre definitions paint
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. Ajay Naidu
theatre
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. Billy Bob Thornton
theatre agents television
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. Dominic Monaghan
theatre actors chess
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. Boris Spassky
theatre sound backgrounds
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music. Ben Nicholas
theatre theater fascinating
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller
theatre legends firsts
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period. Dennis Christopher
theatre acting half
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him. Edgar Allan Poe
theatre
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre. Tim Crouch
theatre
I trained in the theatre. Danny Boyle
theatre littles little-money
There's little money in theatre. Cyrus Broacha
theatre soil native
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. Cyril Cusack
theatre normal actors
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life. Anna Chancellor
theatre noble ecstasy
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. Constantin Stanislavski
theatre better-person should
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
theatre absurd agree
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. Daniel Berrigan
theatre ephemeral charm
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was. Clive Barker
theatre may enlightening
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. David Mamet
theatre impulse feels
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can Cillian Murphy
theatre needs action
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts. Andrei Tarkovsky
theatre students film
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. Christopher Parker
theatre actors hips
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. Christopher Meloni
theatre actresses tape
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language. Angelina Jolie
theatre difficult wells
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well. Andrzej Wajda
theatre television active
At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
theatre slides intention
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions. Ben Whishaw
theatre actors traffic
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. Benicio Del Toro
theatre want too-much
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. Benedict Cumberbatch
theatre conventions stage
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage. Anton Chekhov
theatre pieces violence
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? Arundhati Roy
theatre batteries speak
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak. Dan Stevens
theatre building-something groups
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. Elia Kazan