When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot, and then it's gone.
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of. . . a much more integrative experience.
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.
Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose. . . can. . . be found nowhere else, except. . . in an ant's nest.