I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. – Howard Barker
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. – Bill Veeck
Well the least favourite question is the one that one’s asked particularly about in Japan is what’s the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that’s about eighty bucks. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I’m a movie buff. – Justin Timberlake
When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, ‘Wow!’ – John Lasseter
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. – Alfred Hitchcock
My first role was in the George Gershwin musical ‘Crazy for You’ at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 – I grew up in Florida – and I wasn’t old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard. – Aubrey Peeples
I’d quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film. – April Pearson
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way. – Anthony Hopkins
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. – Clint Eastwood
My high school experience was kind of like ‘Mean Girls.’ It was very much like a bad B movie. ‘This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.’ And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate. – Andie MacDowell
I don’t even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They’re about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn’t ordinarily meet. – Ashley Jensen
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it. – Andrew O’Hagan
With virtual reality, I’m not interested in the novelty factor. I’m interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we’ve had before to connect one human being to another. – Chris Milk
There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon. – Bud Grant
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre. – Brigitte Nielsen
I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor. – Anupam Kher
I started doing theatre, and that’s when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place. – Bel Powley
I said I would like to do some theatre, so people started searching for some jobs for me, and I didn’t think it would be the lead role in ‘Equus.’ – Alfie Allen
If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer. – Asghar Farhadi
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. – Bruce Forsyth
I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. – Aaron Sorkin
The fact is that ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there’s nothing for either of the two witches to sing. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig. – Cate Blanchett
I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby. – Aisha Tyler
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. – Andrzej Wajda