Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Devon Sawa

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

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.

Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification

Beth Henley

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

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.

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.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Ivor Novello

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

Israel Horovitz

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

Isabelle Huppert

But theatre is always a difficult experience

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Kim Cattrall

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Kim Cattrall

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Kim Cattrall

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

Kenneth Tynan

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Kenneth Tynan

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Judi Dench

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Judi Dench

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

Jesse Eisenberg

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jeremy Piven

I grew up in the theatre.

Harriet Walter

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.

Jeremy Bulloch

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

James A. Baldwin

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.