Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
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.
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
I've actually been looking at plays, and I have read a bunch of stuff. I would love to do it. I have thought about theatre on and off over the years, but other things kept getting in the way. Maybe now's the time.
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague. . . they make art impossible.
I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
I would like to be going all over the kingdom. . . and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
It was only in the theatre that I lived
Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.