Quotes on Theatre

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

Author: David Amram

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

Author: Matthew Ashford

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Author: Tristan Bernard

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Author: Cate Blanchett

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

Author: Edward Bond

I think there is no world without theatre.

Author: Edward Bond

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Author: Edward Bond

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

Author: Richard Briers

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

Author: Kim Cattrall

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Author: Cyril Cusack

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

Author: Katherine Dunham

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Author: Christopher Durang

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

Author: Sherilyn Fenn

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Author: Bill Forsyth

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

Author: Megan Gallagher

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

Author: Peter Gallagher

You can only do so much theatre.

Author: Victor Garber

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Author: Uta Hagen

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Author: Vaclav Havel

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Author: Beth Henley

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

Author: Jeffrey Jones

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Author: Vivien Leigh

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird.

Author: Jason Mewes

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Author: Mandy Moore

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

Author: Cillian Murphy

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Author: Ajay Naidu

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Author: David Naughton

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

Author: Christopher Parker

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

Author: Hal Price

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

Author: Tony Randall

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Author: Chita Rivera

I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.

Author: Gary Sinise

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.

Author: Jennifer Sky

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Author: Stephen Sondheim

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

Author: David Soul

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

Author: David Soul

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

Author: Juliet Stevenson

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.

Author: Douglas Wilson