Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Stott

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Shaun Sipos

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

Sheridan Smith

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

Sebastian Bach

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Noel Coward

She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

Neil Gaiman

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.

Nicole Kidman

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

Pat Nixon

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

Megan Gallagher

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

Max Irons

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Matthew Macfadyen

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Mel Torme

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Nancy Reagan

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Laurie Metcalf

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

Lusia Strus

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

John Boyega

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Sophocles

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

Thomas Heywood

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Sarah Bernhardt

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Willem Dafoe

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Willem Dafoe

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

Robert Ashley

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Robert Plant

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Sarah Sutton

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

Sarah Sutton

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

Will Rogers

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

Zach Braff

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

Sean Penn

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Tennessee Williams

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Saffron Burrows

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.