Actor Quotes by Lee Hall

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors…

— Lee Hall

The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels,…

— Lee Hall

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of…

— Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

— Lee Hall

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

— Lee Hall

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared…

— Lee Hall

There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

— Lee Hall

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in…

— Lee Hall

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the…

— Lee Hall

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

— Lee Hall

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from…

— Lee Hall

There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority…

— Lee Hall

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall