The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they’re doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. – Ian Mckellen
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. – Howard Barker
I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday. – Hayley McFarland
My plan was to go to New York and do some theatre, and then I got the script for ‘Psych.’ I was like, ‘Ahh – just as I thought I was out, you pulled me back in!’ I had a great meeting with the show creator and we laid out the parameters to make the show work: what I would do, what he would let me do. – James Roday
The platform doesn’t really matter to me, whether it’s stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it’s a story that I would want to watch and if it’s a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that’s really what gets me. – Julia Stiles
My father’s parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. – Josef Albers
I’ve never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can’t say I would turn my back on fortune. I’m someone who enjoys the benefits of money. – Joan Collins
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor. – Judith Butler
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you’re in their presence. Film stars don’t know what it is to have an audience. – Ian Mckellen
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play. – Judd Nelson
I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there. – Jerry Hall
For me, making films is like being on vacation, it’s a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you’re going to fall off or make it to the top. – Isabelle Huppert
I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors. – James Denton
If I was producing something, it wouldn’t make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn’t put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn’t go to a movie because that person’s father is so and so. – Bryce Dallas Howard
I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading. – Amanda Marshall
It’s interesting that the wondrous ‘Hamilton,’ which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn’t have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself. – Bill Forsyth
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What’s better than that? – Imelda Staunton
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 Binoche
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. – James Cromwell
Yeah, well I’ve always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that’s really where my training is. As an actor, that’s my training. – Christopher Walken
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot. – Benedict Cumberbatch
I’ve never been a really big fan of theatre. I don’t know why. It’s so much for effort. It’s much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that’s piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart. – Callan McAuliffe
Theatre is relatively easy if you’re British – you’re living in the theatre capital of the world, London – there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted. – Ian Mckellen
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. – Brenton Thwaites
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character – that is the purpose of films and theatre. – Isabelle Huppert