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Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.