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“If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.”

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Author:Catherine Tate

“I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.”

Years Theatre

Author:Claudia Christian

“As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.”

People Trying Jobs Actors Television Tvs Losing Theatre

Author:Andrew Rannells

“I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.”

Thinking Doe Reason Film Theatre Likes

Author:Miranda Otto

“Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can”

Feels I Can Theatre Impulse

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.”

People Thinking Art Form Young Television Theatre Fades

Author:Kelly McGillis

“I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion and it's not always the fun part of it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Self Evil Fun Community Theatre Promotion Paparazzi Iowa Necessary Evil Self Promotion Community Theatre

Author:Gail O'Grady

“Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.”

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Author:Peter Facinelli

“I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Done Enough Stories Film Couple Theatre Secure Get It Done

Author:Gary Sinise

“I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.”

Want Hard Hard Work Theatre Working It Repetitive

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.”

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Author:Callan McAuliffe

“I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.”

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Author:Joe Morton

“I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.”

Years Littles Ends Reality Term Television Series Following Theatre Chosen Vocation

Author:Karl Urban

“I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack.”

Play School Left Acting Childhood Involved Decided Theatre Pursue Cracks

Author:Karl Urban

“I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.”

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Author:Imogene Coca

“I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.”

Thinking Sometimes Theatre Torture

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.”

Want I Can Play Running Turns Hair Musical Theatre Mess Furniture Musical Theatre

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that”

Years Six London Theatre

Author:Imelda Staunton

“I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.”

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Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.”

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Author:Ben Vereen

“I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.”

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Author:Ted Shackelford

“I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.”

Has Beens Different School Actors Rooms Class Stage Directors Training Theatre Good School

Author:James Denton

“I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.”

Ifs Want Doe Home Moving Accepting Theatre

Book:The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times

Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times

“The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.”

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Author:Noel Coward

“The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond the blue-haired old ladies in the stalls. Im going to keep working on the integration of film and video technology.”

Ifs Want Lasts Film Moving Technology Majors Blue Theatre Video Electricity Integration Breakthrough Old Lady

Author:David Soul

“I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.”

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Author:Kathleen Turner

“I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.”

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Author:Jeffrey Jones

“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.”

“I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.”

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Author:Jose Carreras

“My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.”

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Author:Skylar Astin

“I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company”

Firsts Actors Goal Acting Company Theatre Permanent

Author:Tony Randall

“I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier”

Years Actors Theatre

Author:Tony Randall

“I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.”

Seems Film Actors Interest Tvs Theatre Pursue

Author:Renee O'Connor

“Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.”

Thinking World Actors Talent British Theatre

Author:Brenda Blethyn

“When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.”

Felt Bits Growing Up Growing Theatre Outsiders

Author:Eric McCormack

“I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.”

Different Personality Demand Aspect Theatre Muscles

Author:Victor Garber

“I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.”

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Author:Toks Olagundoye

“If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.”

Ifs World This World Theatre

Author:Kathe Koja

“The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.”

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Author:Diane Paulus

“We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.”

Actors Stars Audience Theatre

Author:Jose Ferrer

“I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.”

Looks Actors Strong Theatre Backgrounds Look Up

Author:Alexa Vega

“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.”

Giving Art Matter Actors Acting Secret Theatre Keeping Secrets Best Acting Actors And Acting Acting From Actors

Author:Ellen Barkin

“My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.”

Firsts Shows Periods Theatre Legends Broadway Broadway Shows

Author:Dennis Christopher

“As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?”

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Author:Arabella Weir

“Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”

Real Emotion Blood Opposites Performances Theatre Fake Knives

Author:Marina Abramovic

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