Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.
When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
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.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
Theatre is immediate gratification.