“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”
David Hare
“Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.”
William Petersen
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.”
Lusia Strus
“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”
Maggie Smith
“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.”
Daniel Day-Lewis
