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Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any… — Mark Rylance
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free. — Mike Figgis
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. — Mike Figgis
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about. — Chita Rivera
Theatre is immediate gratification — Chita Rivera
After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day. — Unknown Author
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
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… — Mel Smith
It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did… — Rosamund Pike
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. — Christopher Eccleston
This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. — Jeffrey Jones
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood. — Samuel West
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I… — Astley Cooper
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels.… — Patrick Marber
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous… — Delta Burke
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… — Brenda Blethyn
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who… — Constantin Stanislavski
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in… — Constantin Stanislavski
Play well, or play badly, but play truly. — Constantin Stanislavski
The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent. — Unknown Author
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. — Elaine Stritch
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it. — Elaine Stritch
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am… — Ellen Terry
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. — H. L. Mencken

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