Theatre Quotes - Page 26

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

I trust Angela Merkel, she is a very open person. She is also subject to certain constraints and limitations. But she is honestly trying to settle the crisis, also in the south-east of Ukraine. However, what the European Union is doing with those sanctions is nothing but a theatre of the absurd.

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

You can only do so much theatre.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.