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Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

— Treat Williams

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

— Pablo Schreiber

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

— Tina Fey

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

— Marina Sirtis

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

— Andrew Rannells

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.

— Michelle Borth

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

— Sutton Foster

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

— Haylie Duff

✗Opposing Perspectives

In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.

— Amber Stevens

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

— Peter Falk