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Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.
I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.
I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.
There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.
My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn the craft.
Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.
My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.
I will do a big-budget film. I will do an indie film. I will do a short film. I will do a digital platform show, television, and even theatre. I don't have any restrictions in terms of platform as long as the content is something that I find interesting.
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.
In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Theatre is an actor's medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
The reason why a filmmaker will invest in a male actor is because he will be able to sustain footfalls in the theatre till he turns 50.
In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.
I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'
I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience.
I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.
After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back to the theatre and started directing and producing, and found I enjoyed it as much, if not more, than acting.
I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.
London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.
After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.
The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.
I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'.
If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.
I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
I started in theatre; the first bit of drama I did was amateur dramatics, up until I was 19. Then the TV and film opportunities came along, but now I was just ready to come back.
I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.
The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
It would be quite interesting to use Kermit the Frog to act like a real frog. But it wouldn't produce captivating theatre.
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