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Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

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

Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

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

Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.

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

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Musical theatre is my first love.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.

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.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

My heroes were all in the theatre.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.