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I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

Theater was something that I always wanted to study.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.