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I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people. — Kristin Davis
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all… — Sabrina Lloyd
When I stand on stage, I get nervous, and because unexpected situations can occur, we need even more preparation. I must have confidence on top… — Seohyun
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your… — Blythe Danner
I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that… — Tracy Letts
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money — Beth Henley
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people. — Edward Bond
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation… — Edward Bond
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being… — Edward Bond
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks — Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice — Edward Bond
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. — Uta Hagen
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just… — Emily Watson
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression… — Frances McDormand
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. — Michael Gambon
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good. — Terrence Mann
The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can… — Unknown Author
It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as… — Robert McCracken
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant… — Mary Pickford
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… — George Eliot
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that… — Athol Fugard

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