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If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.
At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.
It would be quite interesting to use Kermit the Frog to act like a real frog. But it wouldn't produce captivating theatre.
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'