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I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.
I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.
I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.
The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.