Geneva Carr Quotes

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.