930 Theatre Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before. Tim Rice

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I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club. Timothee Chalamet

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Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. Tina Brown

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I don't miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it's so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything's as it should be. Tom Bateman

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I want to do everything and be greedy in that way - film, TV, radio, theatre. If it's juicy work, I want it! Tom Glynn-Carney

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Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed. Tom Hollander

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My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me. Tom Lenk

'1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related. Tom Sturridge

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A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud. Tony Harrison

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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV. Tony Harrison

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Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry. Tony Harrison

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I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Tony Kushner

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I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier. Tony Randall

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Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school. Trudie Styler

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I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films. Tuppence Middleton

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' Twyla Tharp

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I grew up performing in theatre. Valorie Curry

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My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me. Vanessa Kirby

Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me. Vanessa Kirby

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You can only do so much theatre. Victor Garber

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Looking at the actors I most admire - Judi Dench, Ian Holm, that whole generation - they all started in rep and slowly built themselves into the position where they could juggle theatre and film. Victoria Hamilton

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