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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.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

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

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.