top of page
More

"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
Author Name
Personal Development

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."
Imagination

"I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."
Life

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
Theatre

"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
Act

"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
Being

"Life is too short to work so hard."
Life

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."
Paris

"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."
Night

"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."
Happiness

"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."
Play
bottom of page