#pear

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#audience #disappear #energy #first #first thing

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#days #first #made #numbered #ordinary

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#actor #audience #between #exchange #feeling

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#ensemble #going #hall #happening #home

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#before #brand #brand new #career #done

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#appeared #carry #cowboy #first #horses

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#i #many #maybe #play #really

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#big #born #great #greatness #i

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed. ↗

— John Oates

#back #been #changed #disappear #ever