I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.
I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.
I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.
I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!
I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.' This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!
Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.
Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.
