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Theatre Quotes

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Theatre Chicago Hollywood Radio Hub

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

Constantin Stanislavski

Theatre Better Person Better You

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Theatre Friends Never Kid Been Kids

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Quentin Tarantino

Crazy Theatre Small Plan Small Town

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

Love Theatre Heritage Bold Grumpy

When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then.

Love Me Theatre Back Island See

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

School Theatre Canada Like National

Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

Theatre Game Worth Lose Rules Play

When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.

Theatre Doing Camera Miss Being TV

Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

Me Theatre Short Budget Matter Film

I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

Theatre Doing Hometown Acting Place

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

Love Good Women Myself Theatre Want

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

Time Art Theatre First Time Classic

Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.

Yourself Theatre Watching Big Going

One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre.

Discipline Law Theatre World Reality

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

Great Equality Theatre Fall Cinema

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

School Theatre Stage Lived Left Six

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

Live Theatre Performance You Know

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing!

Love Day New Day People Theatre New

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Richard C. Armitage

People Theatre Out Cut Other Really

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Kathleen Turner

Good Women Great Theatre Building

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

Life Good Business Theatre My Life

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

Talent Theatre World Think Now Over

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Life Experience Theatre Think Listen

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