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I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
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.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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.
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.
Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
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.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.
My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.
I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.