For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Roland Barthes
Tiyatro için birinin uzun kollara ihtiyacı vardır;çok uzun kollara sahip olmak çok kısalara sahip olmaktan daha iyidir,kısa kollu bir sanatçı asla,asla güzel bir jest yapamaz.
- It is the annual banquet and presentation of the highest honour our theatre has: for the Sarah Siddons Awards. I placed in presenting this highest honour. Surely no actor is older than I.
- Bu tiyatromuzun her yıl Sarah Siddons Ödülleri için düzenlenen en onurlu yemeği ve sunumudur. Bu en onurlu geceyi sunmakla görevlendirildim. Elbette benden daha yaşlı bir aktörümüz bulunmuyor.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. Kenneth Tynan
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. Stephen Sondheim
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me. Joanna Trollope
As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them. Ewan McGregor
As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna. Sandra Oh
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. Gavin Bryars