I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience. – T. J. Thyne
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. – Tony Shalhoub
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that’s all I need to think about if I’m having difficulties. – Sarah Hall
Class I to XII wasn’t much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view. – Vir Das
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. – Theresa Rebeck
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work. – Tim Crouch
I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre – and a place like ‘Powerhouse’ – is that who you are is informing your work. There’s actually no separation from that. – Thomas Kail
Performing on stage is my first love – it’s why I wanted to be an actor in the first place – and ‘Arcadia’ is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience – you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene. – Tom Riley
I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that’s really good, because that is what it’s about. – Sylvester McCoy
I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately. – Sabrina Lloyd
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It’s like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. – Saffron Burrows
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do. – Stephen Daldry
I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on ‘Entourage’, ‘the Sopranos’, etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that’s the most ideal life. – T. J. Thyne
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists. – Stephen Sondheim
My mother worked in the old Minsky’s troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. – Seymour Cassel
All of my scripts are based on other people’s novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. – Tom Stoppard
The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven’t had theatre training – it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around. – Sarah Greene
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it’s partly because there are different pressures on the industries. – Tim Curry
American Ballet Theatre’s rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina’s toes. – Sascha Radetsky
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. – William Kempe
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia. – Yael Stone
I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage… I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre. – Sasha Roiz
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. – Tom Stoppard
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. – Simon Conway Morris
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it’s very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy. – Vir Das
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. – Tom Stoppard
In the theatre, as anyone knows who’s even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you’re under stress, you’re trying to create something, you’re putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away. – Saul Rubinek