Theatre Quotes - Page 15

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.

The paparazzi were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I'd wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there's nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.