Theatre Quotes - Page 17

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

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.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.