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The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

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.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

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.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.