I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

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

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.