With me, it was just a job. I never had stars in my eyes about the theatre.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.