Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia M. Child

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Melissa George

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

James A. Baldwin

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Christopher Lee

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

Eve Ensler

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

Fiona Shaw

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Cate Blanchett

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

Franz Liszt

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Christine Jones

I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.

Jeff Brooks

If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Ivor Novello

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Israel Horovitz

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

Isabelle Huppert

But theatre is always a difficult experience

Bette Davis

Pray to God and say the lines.

Christopher Durang

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

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.

Jeremy Bulloch

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

Howard Barker

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Gore Vidal

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Harold Prince

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

James Cromwell

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

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.

Ian Ziering

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

Iris Murdoch

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

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

Franco Nero

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

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.

Tim Crouch

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Danny Boyle

I trained in the theatre.