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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

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.

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

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.