theatre quotes

• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. (Walter Benjamin) [memory/past/theatre/past]
• For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. (Sarah Bernhardt) [theatre/needs]
• We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. (Bertolt Brecht) [type/theatre/feelings/human]
• The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. (Denis Diderot) [theatre/tears/men]
• I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. (Isadora Duncan) [perfect/theatre/repetition/words]
• The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. (David Hare) [theatre]
• I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. (Vaclav Havel) [think/theatre]
• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. (George Santayana) [theatre/life/more/life]
• When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? (Anna Kournikova) [theatre/look/ugly]
• So, I won't do theatre as much now, I think. (Albert Finney) [theatre/think]
• Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. (Albert Finney) [career/more/theatre]
• There was a great deal I had to unlearn. In the theatre there was exaggeration in everything I did. (Bela Lugosi) [theatre]
• Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. (Ben Kingsley) [theatre]
• I didn't work for three years. I couldn't get arrested! I'd given up, really, and was working for my brother on a building site and working on the crew at the Royal Exchange Theatre, building sets and changing the scenery. (Christopher Eccleston) [exchange/theatre]
• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. (Christopher Eccleston) [think/theatre/experience/character]
• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre. (Christopher Eccleston) [theatre/television/more/reach]
• The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. (Christopher Eccleston) [money/television/theatre/more]
• Theatre is as close to football as you can get, its a thrilling, physical experience. (Christopher Eccleston) [theatre/experience]
• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. (Christopher Eccleston) [theatre/theatre/theatre/people]
• If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. (David Soul) [tradition/theatre]
• It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. (David Soul) [theatre]
• The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond the blue-haired old ladies in the stalls. I'm going to keep working on the integration of film and video technology. (David Soul) [theatre/integration/film]
• I've been playing music since I was 12 and I like to play in a band. It takes the place of theatre for me, the live performance element. (Dennis Quaid) [music/theatre]
• I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. (Devon Sawa) [theatre/company]
• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something. (Don Cheadle) [film/people/theatre]
• As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them. (Ewan McGregor) [child/theatre/love/stage]
• From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. (Ewan McGregor) [theatre/school]
• Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. (Ewan McGregor) [school/theatre/stage]
• Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. (Harvey Keitel) [genius/find/theatre/books]
• “That's the thing about Brits – they have the grounding in the classics and theatre, ... That's why we're good. We go to America and people respect that because we've been through the theatre, we've made discoveries and also made our mistakes there, and that's a wonderful environment to be in. By the time you start to make television and films you've got some experience behind you, an anchor. All those things, when you put them together, give you a certain amount of confidence and a certain belief in yourself, and the ability to adapt and change to some of the different roles you play. You need to be a good actor to play a villain, and we're always getting cast as villains because we play them well.” (Sean Bean) [thing/theatre/america/people]
• In the summer, I act at the Williamstown Theatre. I do roles that I wouldn't ordinarily be cast in and that make people regard me as a woman of more depth. (Blythe Danner) [theatre/people/more/depth]

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