Theatre Quotes - Page 13

• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Fog, Two, Lasts

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

  Ken Stott

  Actors, Areas, Knows

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• They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Running, New York, Oscars

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Saws, Royal

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• A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Nice, Fans, Strange

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• 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.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Village

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• If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

  Robert Pattinson

  New York, Cities, Bored

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

  Laurie Metcalf

  Hours, Minutes

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• Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

  Israel Horovitz

  All Time, Irrelevant

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• I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

  Louise Jameson

  Thinking, Space, Quirky

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• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  Felicity Jones

  Play, Film, Short Films

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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  David Amram

  Uncles, Years, Dukes

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Skills, Realizing, Designer

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• I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m doing this play.’ He said, ‘Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in school’

  Dane DeHaan

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I'd love to teach theatre arts.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Art, Teach

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• The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

  Sarah Burton

  Art, Fun, Creating

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

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Leisure

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Mark Haddon

  Moving, Kids, Rooms

  "Mark Haddon: 'What I love about theatre is that it's like being a kid again'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Drama, School, Hated

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• From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

  Lee Hall

  Kings, Profound, Hierarchy

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• The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Artist, Games

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Growing Up, Real, Goal

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Tourists

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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