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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that
I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.