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I started when I was really young. I did a lot of local theatre. I always enjoyed it.
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.
It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
Delhi is where I began practising theatre, it is always special to perform in the capital.
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.