Quotes about theatre
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 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 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 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
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 impulse feels
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can Cillian Murphy
theatre lines praying
Pray to God and say the lines. Bette Davis
theatre shy six
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 tragedy revolution
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. John Mortimer
theatre television brilliant
Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!" Gabriel Mann
theatre stranger audience
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life. Elaine Stritch
theatre tragic
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
theatre literature doe
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. Edward Bond
theatre want able
Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit. Edward Albee
theatre broadway clubs
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club. Kevin Spacey
theatre gone alive
Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.
theatre comfortable hard
The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in. Kevin Conroy
theatre england dialect
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. Kunal Nayyar
theatre ephemeral gone
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. Maggie Smith
theatre facts november
In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there. Norman Wisdom
theatre firsts three
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them. Om Puri
theatre calling reacting
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. Emma Watson
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 interfaces sells
I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that. Harriet Walter
theatre television film
I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre. Jeremy Bulloch