The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.