I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It’s got theatre, it’s got young, pretty people… And it’s got money! – Rufus Wainwright
I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you… whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you. – Randeep Hooda
People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don’t do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious. – Randeep Hooda
Doing ‘EastEnders’ wasn’t exactly suffering, but my soul’s not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn’t pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don’t we? – Phil Daniels
I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time. – Robert Emms
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled. – Richard E. Grant
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight – just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown. – Olivia Cooke
I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
There isn’t really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there. – Raza Jaffrey
In theatre, once you’ve got the character and you’ve got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel – you don’t get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it’s a bit stop and start – but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily. – Sean Bean
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. – Sean Penn
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn’t hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me. – Rachel Tucker
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It’s such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don’t have any comic role to my credit. – Randeep Hooda
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to ‘Edwin Drood,’ you’re going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years. – Rupert Holmes
I’d always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I’d think: ‘Where is the justice?’ I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs. – Romola Garai
I’m trained in musical theatre and ‘Pitch Perfect’ is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role. – Rebel Wilson
It’s great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people. – Phil Daniels
Theatre is great, but we don’t live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills. – Randeep Hooda
I do like to be creative and I’m very lucky that I’ve been given different areas in which I’m able to do that – whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I’m also still into music and recording. – Richard O’Brien
I’m excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. – Tim Crouch
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as ‘The Royal Variety Show,’ performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. – Shirley Eaton
I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, ‘The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.’ – William T. Vollmann
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.’ It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down. – Tamara Tunie
I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there’s nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After ‘The Author,’ I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue. – Samuel Barnett
My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding… That’s the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn’t as much into the comic book stuff. So it’s fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me. – Tom Lenk
Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people. – Thomas Lennon