Theatre Quotes - Page 14

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many years ago and we've lost it and we've lost everything to screens in this culture and we need to bring it back.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

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.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

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

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.