Theatre quotes

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◆ I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

- Kabir Bedi100

◆ Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

- Victor Garber99

◆ I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

- Christopher Eccleston99

◆ 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 Eccleston99

◆ Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

- James Agate99

◆ The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

- Stella Adler99

◆ The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

- Kim Cattrall99

◆ Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

- Kim Cattrall99

◆ Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

- Sebastian Bach99

◆ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin99

◆ Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

- Mike Figgis99

◆ I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

- Brenda Blethyn99

◆ Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

- Juliette Binoche99

◆ The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

- Sarah Bernhardt99

◆ In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

- Tristan Bernard99