Best 631 quotes in «theatre quotes» category

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.'  This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.   Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Musical theatre is my first love.

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

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

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

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.

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

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.