Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Joe Morton

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Paul Scofield

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

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.

Mark Twain

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

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.

Christopher Durang

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

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.

Edward Bond

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Edward Albee

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.

Jonathan Frid

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

Tennessee Williams

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

Simon McBurney

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there...

Simon McBurney

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

Simon McBurney

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

Richard Briers

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

Rupert Penry-Jones

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

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.

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.