Theatre Quotes - Page 24

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.

Very simply, a platform is the thing you stand on to get heard. It's your stage. But unlike a stage in a theatre, today's platform is not built of wood or concrete or perched on a grassy hill. Today's platform is built of people. Contacts. Connections. Followers.

I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

Theatre just fills me up so much.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.