Harry Treadaway Quotes

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

I'd love to play a lead in the theatre.

The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

I don't think they necessarily do nearly as much haunting as people think. If you believe in the Bible, pretty much part of the deal that goes with it is ghosts.

As an actress, I am always interested in the new writers.

I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.

I sure hope there will be more theatre on television and in the movie theaters. I do have to say, the idea of theatre in movie theaters is really exciting to me.

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

I'm dying to do a drama.

My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!