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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.