There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
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In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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.
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.
When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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.