Funny Theatre Techie Quotes

I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible. ~ Dianne Feinstein

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play. ~ Norman Wisdom

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. ~ Michiel Huisman

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased. ~ Jeremy Begbie

Everyone is creative and everyone is a techie. ~ Ayah Bdeir

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology. ~ Vinod Khosla

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands. ~ Evan Glodell

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. ~ Christopher Eccleston

Shit down your computer, and restart. ~ Claire Chilton

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn." ~ Henny Youngman

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre. ~ Jimmi Simpson

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre. ~ Tim Crouch

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. ~ Sophie Aldred

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making. ~ Robert Wilson

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

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. ~ Tom Stoppard

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all. ~ David Cronenberg

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre. ~ Ewan McGregor

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre. ~ John Gallagher, Jr.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent. ~ Clotilde Hesme

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. ~ Wesley Snipes

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas. ~ Abi Morgan

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films. ~ Tuppence Middleton

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy. ~ Vir Das

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. ~ David Ives

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre. ~ Kenneth Branagh

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) ... I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it. ~ Noel Coward

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. ~ Clive Barker

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared. ~ Bertie Carvel

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true. ~ Susan Egan

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. ~ Boris Spassky

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me. ~ Buddy Lester

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either. ~ Anne-Marie Duff

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. ~ Augusto Boal

You have violated Robot's Rules of Order and will be asked to leave the Future. ~ Firesign Theatre

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility. ~ Mark Williams

I love the theatre and theatre people. ~ Cyril Cusack

The Theatre of the Absurd, in the sense that it is truly the contemporary theatre, facing as it does man's condition as it is, is the Realistic theatre of our time; and that the supposed Realistic theatre - the term used here to mean most of what is done on Broadway - in the sense that it panders to the public need for self-congratulation and reassurance and presents a false picture of ourselves to ourselves is ... really and truly The Theatre of the Absurd. ~ Edward Albee

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre. ~ Christopher Eccleston

I am very fond of the theatre. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there. Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head. ~ Nikolai Gogol

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time. ~ Laura Benanti

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be. ~ Katherine Dunham

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre. ~ Elaine Paige

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it. ~ Om Puri

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years. ~ Brenda Blethyn

I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men. ~ Kim Cattrall

I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds. ~ Kevin Spacey

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. ~ Andrzej Wajda

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else. ~ Simon McBurney

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space. ~ Susan Sontag

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project. ~ Ben Vereen

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again. ~ Sarah Waters

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage. ~ Christian Slater

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites ... some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way. ~ Tony Kushner

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. ~ Thornton Wilder

I don't see enough theatre. ~ Luke Evans

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always. ~ Carey Mulligan

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners. ~ Ruthie Henshall

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. ~ Constantin Stanislavski

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be. ~ Willem Dafoe

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event. ~ Janet Suzman

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film. ~ Andrea Martin

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. ~ Steve Buscemi

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting. ~ Janet McTeer

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. ~ Emily Mortimer

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. ~ Peter Brook

All theatre, by virtue of its being a cultural construct and therefore ideologically inscribed, is political. ~ Mark S. Weinberg

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie. ~ Anne Hathaway

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. ~ Ewan McGregor

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. ~ Susan Sontag

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission. ~ Lady Gaga

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away. ~ Saul Rubinek

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. ~ Tom Stoppard

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything. ~ Willem Dafoe

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about. ~ Chita Rivera

The first perk of theatre is the girls. ~ James Spader

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation ~ Anne Bogart

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. ~ Steve Ballmer

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. ~ Toni Servillo

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' ~ Twyla Tharp

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time. ~ Rob Urbinati

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am. ~ Alicia Keys

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type. ~ Erica Schroeder

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. ~ Tom Stoppard

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years. ~ David Schwimmer

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies. ~ Stephen Daldry

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind. ~ John Hurt

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15. ~ John Gallagher, Jr.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. ~ Thomas Browne

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves. ~ Augusto Boal

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you. ~ Eleanor Catton

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays. ~ Arthur Laurents

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do. ~ Toby Stephens

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway. ~ Stephen Tobolowsky

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. ~ Malcolm Boyd

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time. ~ Charles Dance

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. ~ Devon Sawa

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city. ~ Todd English

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between. ~ Nick Mancuso