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Theatre Quotes

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

Theatre Film Spiritually Mentally

I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.

Love Hope People Theatre Story Cry

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

Life Myself I Am Theatre Building

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

Work Theatre Work Ethic Learn You

In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.

Home Women Theatre World Giving

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

Light Theatre India Because Get Did

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

Effort Theatre You Play Group Turn

It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

Theatre Looking Comedy You Look

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Work Heart Best Theatre Back I Can

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

Home Art Red People Theatre Think

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

Love Theatre Think Feel You Know

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Time People Theatre Free Play Watch

I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.

Love Hate Football People Theatre

Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

Me Theatre End First Always Taste

Honestly, I actually would really love to see more musical theatre actors do the movie adaptations of shows - I think that would be really great to see.

Love Great Theatre Think More See

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.

Kenneth Cranham

Theatre Think You Will Anything

I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

Love New York Theatre Weird Doing

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Life Truth People Theatre Seeing

When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

Sylvester Stallone

Life Mind Theatre Think My Life Out

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

Health Theatre America Insurance

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

Theatre Short Play Up Film Sense

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

Theatre Mean Critics Much Part Very

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

Me Theatre Feel Doing Comfortable

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.

Love Great Me Theatre Start You

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