I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. – Samantha Barks
Theatre is about the collective imagination… Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text – but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV. – Simon McBurney
I hope it’s always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I’ve been very lucky living in London that you can do all that – in New York and L.A., there’s more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place. – Samuel Barnett
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. – Thornton Wilder
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, ‘Yes, we’d love that.’ – Tom Stoppard
I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film. – Wendy Raquel Robinson
I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term ‘theatre geek?’ I am the extreme theatre geek. – Vincent Rodriguez III
Once in awhile, there’s stuff that makes me say, That’s what theatre’s about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn’t happen very often. – Uta Hagen
As far as I’m concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she’s really down to earth. She’s got all those Oscars, she’s made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney. – Sylvester McCoy
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. – Vivien Leigh
For the theatre one needs long arms… an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. – Sarah Bernhardt
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people’s hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. – Willem Dafoe
Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I’ve had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed. – Sylvester McCoy
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. – Sara Gilbert
I suppose I became in danger of overexposure, which is why, I think, doing theatre for a year is quite a sensible move – just to remember what it’s all about, really. – Tom Goodman-Hill
I don’t recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: ‘Oh, that’s what I have to do.’ – Simon McBurney
Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn’t more representation. – Sanjeev Bhaskar
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God’s righteous Kingdom. – Thomas Traherne
When theatre works, it’s like nothing else, and when it doesn’t, which is often, it’s excruciating. It’s perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen. – Sarah Waters