There isn’t really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it’s great. an Academy Award means that you don’t stink quite as much as your cousin.

An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

Les représentations thé trales, elles aussi, sont enracinées dans la violence collective et ce sont des espèces de rites, mais plus nettoyés encore de leur violence que les sacrifices animaux, et plus riches sur le...

I don’t have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there’s something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That’s what they were written for. That’s where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

I think a person has to believe in something,or search out some kind of faith;otherwise life is empty, nothing.How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly,why children are born, why there are stars...

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very...

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

The best author is a dead author, because he’s out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

I don’t think theatre has changed; it’s society that has changed.

Nevis tas moments ir skaists, kad tu runā, bet tas, kad tu klusē.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

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.

What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they’re little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you...

It’s shameful that today’s mouthy political expositors aren’t better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn’t studied Shakespeare?

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

If you’re in a series, you can’t quit, you can’t work in the theatre and you can’t do a movie when you like.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I’m quite content.

VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!

When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.

‘Doctor Who’ was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children’s theatre.

The Director’s Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job...

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it’s all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything...

Acting is in everything but the words.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of ’em tug at my...

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.

I get on with actors, and when I’m doing a theatre show, it’s great being with them all the time. But we’re all alike, and it’s much nicer being with people who are different.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

The Theatre of the Absurd, in the sense that it is truly the contemporary theatre, facing as it does man’s condition as it is, is the Realistic theatre of our time; and that the supposed...

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They’re a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into...

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.