Theatre Quotes - Page 7

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Theatre is immediate gratification

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.