- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm kind of a mutt. I was born in the U.S., my parents are from Mexico, and I grew up in Switzerland. It's weird because I sound American, but I spell theater 'theatre' with the 'r' before the 'e'.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.
- National
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
- Bits And Pieces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020