Hal Price 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.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

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

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

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

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.

Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.