Theatre Quotes - page 5

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. (Peter O'Toole)

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Donald Pleasence

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

Mary, Queen of Scots

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

Pete Townshend

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Uta Hagen

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Edward T. Hall

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

Alfred Molina

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television. (Andrew Rannells)

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

Ann Dowd

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Anna Kournikova

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Antonia Thomas

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

Ashley Jensen

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Ajay Naidu

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

Beth Henley

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Beth Henley

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Bill Veeck

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre. (Brenda Blethyn)

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Brenda Blethyn

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Brenton Thwaites

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Bruce Beresford

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Beatrice Wood

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