My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
I suppose I became in danger of overexposure, which is why, I think, doing theatre for a year is quite a sensible move - just to remember what it's all about, really.
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.