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Theatre Quotes
On the stage, the craft, and the crowd.
Several of these come from performers describing theatre as where they started - repertory work that builds pressure tolerance, or early years doing puppet and mime theatre for competitions. Related: Acting.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
- Nov 07, 2020
Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.
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- Nov 07, 2020