It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.
I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
In my childhood, I used to go to theatres to watch independent singers' outing on screen. I used to be excited about how different they sound in a video and at a theatre.
I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.
'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
