When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way. – Andrew Lincoln
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That’s probably true of anyone’s career. – Ann Dowd
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying. – Britt Ekland
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. – Brenda Blethyn
I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. – Adriana Trigiani
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. – Arthur Lowe
When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much. – Bo Burnham
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. – Beth Henley
I’m an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ soundtrack or ‘Into The Woods.’ – Allison Williams
If you’re sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things. – Brian Dennehy
I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television. – Abhishek Bachchan
When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It’s obviously dress up and theatre. – Brad Goreski
Obviously, in theatre, you work chronologically, so you kind of know where your emotions are supposed to be, and you’re always on top of things, and as an actor, you always know what’s coming next. – Alfie Allen
I temporarily became a surgeon for ‘Memory of Love’. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it. – Aminatta Forna
As for theatre, there’s ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was. – Clive Barker
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money. – Beth Henley
I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don’t really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush. – Amanda Seyfried
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. – Alan Bennett
When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won’t remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead, they will think about the last film I did. – Anushka Sharma
‘Go Back Home’ encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that. – Audra McDonald
I’ve made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that’s a good career strategy. – Aidan Gillen
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did ‘Oliver’ here I played the Artful Dodger and I did ‘The Sound of Music.’ – Ben Nicholas