#theatre

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#olivier #theatre #life

An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Harvey Cocks

#theatre #inspirational

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... ↗

— Susan Cooper

#philosophical #theater #theatre #inspirational

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. ↗

— Tristan Bernard

#expect #surprised #theatre #things #wants

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#become #conscious #film #great #out

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#classes #did #different #every #every night

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#both #comfortable #contrived #facebook #feel

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#am #because #i #i am #keeps

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! ↗

— David Kirk

#actions #comes #donkey #elements #entrance