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Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.
The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.
Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.
There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.
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.
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.
I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.