I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
Theater was something that I always wanted to study.
I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.