If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
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Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.
With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.