Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Mazursky

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Peter Weir

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

Peter Stone

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us.

Mike Figgis

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Moss Hart

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

Moss Hart

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Joan Collins

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Lady Gaga

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Paula Vogel

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

Peter Gallagher

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

Peter Brook

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

Peter Brook

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

Peter Capaldi

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

Pete Postlethwaite

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

John Lahr

The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse.

Juliet Stevenson

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

Kabir Bedi

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

Martin McDonagh

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Missi Pyle

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Joe Morton

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Nick Mancuso

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

Oscar Wilde

It was only in the theatre that I lived

Lydia M. Child

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Melissa George

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Mark Twain

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Lea Salonga

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

Lea Michele

Theatre just fills me up so much.

Laurence Olivier

I have to act to live.

Paul Scofield

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

Harry Melling

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

Keeley Hawes

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.