It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
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Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.
The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
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