Theatre Quotes - Page 16

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see.

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.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

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

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.