Theatre Industry Quotes

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I'd grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Broadway is really, really hard.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

Doing theatre in Delhi didn't guarantee success in Mumbai.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.

In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.

Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.

When I went to LA I was almost 30, I'd been nominated for two Tony awards, and on the New York theatre scene I was pretty well known. I went out to LA to meet with casting people, and I remember walking into one meeting and saying: "Hey, how are you? I'm Patrick..." And they said: "I'm so sorry! I thought you were British!" When I asked why, she replied: "Because you're 30 and I've never heard of you!"

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

Theatrical experience will always be the norm in India. In fact, as a producer and as an actor, I always hope that the magnum opus theatrical experience should always continue.