Kenneth Tynan Quotes

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.

'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.

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

I come from a theatre group called Drama Tech in Delhi. When its founder Mr. Chopra called me and appreciated my work, that was also satisfying because he gave me my first play.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I grew up in a household that was very friendly towards the theatre and acting.

A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!

I'd really like to come and do some theatre in the U.K.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.