#theatre

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I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.


Tony Shalhoub


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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.


Mel Smith


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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.


Tom Stoppard


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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.


Preston Sturges


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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.


Kiefer Sutherland


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Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!


Christine Lahti


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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.


Maggie Smith


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My heroes were all in the theatre.


Damian Lewis


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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.


Sarah Bernhardt


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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.


Jacqueline Bisset


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