Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Chancellor

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Christopher Parker

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

Christopher Meloni

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

Angelina Jolie

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

Constantin Stanislavski

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Constantin Stanislavski

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Daniel Berrigan

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Clive Barker

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

Cillian Murphy

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

Edgar Allan Poe

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Dominic Monaghan

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

Dennis Christopher

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Cyrus Broacha

There's little money in theatre.

Cyril Cusack

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Ewan McGregor

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

Kim Cattrall

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Kim Cattrall

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Kim Cattrall

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.

Kenneth Tynan

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Kenneth Tynan

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Nick Mancuso

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

Harry Melling

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

H. L. Mencken

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Jesse Eisenberg

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jeremy Piven

I grew up in the theatre.

Keeley Hawes

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Ken Stott

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Mark Twain

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Ian Ziering

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

Harriet Walter

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.