Marianne Elliott Quotes

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.

I feel like Canada is really good at nurturing their artists, and America's not so good at that. The artistic community is so important to a country.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

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

The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.

Cinema was my passion and I am sure that if you are talented, nobody can sideline you because you are just a comedian.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

I'm an actor. I'm a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.

We want artists to stay in London. It's very important culturally and economically, but there are lots of challenges in terms of finding space.

I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives, but also because they make a tangible contribution to our national economy.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

Theatre has been a part of my education as much as anything else.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.